Transmission method and reception device

ABSTRACT

The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. 
     In group-wise interleaving the LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present technology relates to a transmission method and a receptiondevice, and more particularly to, for example, a transmission method anda reception device for securing favorable communication quality in datatransmission using an LDPC code.

BACKGROUND ART

Low density parity check (LDPC) codes have high error correctioncapability and are in recent years widely adopted in transmissionsystems for digital broadcasting or the like, such as the digital videobroadcasting (DVB)-S.2 in Europe and the like, DVB-T.2, DVB-C.2, and theadvanced television systems committee (ATSC) 3.0 in the United States,and the like, for example (see, for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

With recent researches, it has been found that the LDPC codes are ableto obtain performance close to the Shannon limit as the code length isincreased, similarly to turbo codes and the like. Furthermore, the LDPCcodes have a property that the minimum distance is proportional to thecode length and thus have a good block error probability characteristic,as characteristics. Moreover, a so-called error floor phenomenonobserved in decoding characteristics of turbo codes and the like hardlyoccur, which is also an advantage.

CITATION LIST Non-Patent Document

Non-Patent Document 1: ATSC Standard: Physical Layer Protocol (A/322), 7Sep. 2016

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

In data transmission using an LDPC code, for example, the LDPC code is asymbol (symbolized) of quadrature modulation (digital modulation) suchas quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and the symbol is mapped in asignal point of the quadrature modulation and is sent.

The data transmission using an LDPC code is spreading worldwide and isrequired to secure favorable communication (transmission) quality.

The present technology has been made in view of such a situation, andaims to secure favorable communication quality in data transmissionusing an LDPC code.

Solutions to Problems

A first transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 3/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group anda sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

154, 106, 99, 177, 191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83,103, 169, 156, 130, 186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145,162, 127, 152, 174, 134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150,46, 153, 33, 61, 142, 102, 171, 168, 78, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128,101, 42, 2, 38, 10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 47, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94, 23,34, 59, 35, 129, 12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167, 36,79, 138, 4, 95, 148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107, 137,88, 44, 116, 69, 7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24, 58, 70,11, 56, 143, 111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 71, 48, 26, 117, 50, 149,140, 20, 57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76, 1, 97, 40, 53,84, 166, 75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 187, 25, 119, 41,122, 16, 5, 93, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

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A first reception device of the present technology is a reception deviceincluding a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to return thesequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to the originalsequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmitted from atransmission device including a coding unit configured to perform LDPCcoding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having acode length of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 3/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups154, 106, 99, 177, 191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83,103, 169, 156, 130, 186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145,162, 127, 152, 174, 134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150,46, 153, 33, 61, 142, 102, 171, 168, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128, 101,42, 2, 14, 38, 10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 47, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94, 23, 34,59, 35, 129, 12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167, 36, 79,138, 4, 95, 148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107, 137, 88,44, 116, 69, 7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24, 58, 70, 11,56, 143, 111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 52, 9, 71, 48, 26, 117, 50, 149,140, 20, 57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76, 1, 97, 40, 53,84, 166, 75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 167, 25, 119, 41,122, 16, 5, 93, 115, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

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A second transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length. N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 5/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

1, 182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189,56, 67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169,49, 73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33,21, 53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83,176, 159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165,59, 25, 161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23,12, 66, 70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160,34, 101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168,10, 107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136,55, 44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103,78, 109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75,18, 96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

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A second reception device of the present technology is a receptiondevice including a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to returnthe sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to theoriginal sequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmittedfrom a transmission device including a coding unit configured to perform1990 coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 5/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

1, 182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189,56, 67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169,49, 73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33,21, 53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83,176, 159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165,59, 25, 161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23,12, 66, 70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160,34, 101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168,10, 107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136,55, 44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103,78, 109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75,18, 96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

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868 917 1216 12018 15402 20691 24736 33133 36692 40276 46616

955 1070 1749 7988 10235 19174 22733 24283 27985 38200 44029

613 1729 1787 19542 21227 21376 31057 36104 36874 38078 42445

86 1555 1644 4633 14402 14997 25724 31382 31911 32224 43900

353 1132 1246 5544 7248 17887 25769 27008 28773 33188 44663

600 958 1376 6417 6814 17587 20680 25376 29522 31396 40526

179 528 1472 2481 5589 15696 20148 28040 29690 32370 42163

122 144 681 6613 11230 20862 26396 27737 35928 39396 42713

934 1256 1420 3881 4487 5830 7897 9587 17940 40333 41925

622 1458 1490 16541 18443 19401 24860 26981 28157 32875 38755

1017 1143 1511 2169 17322 24662 25971 29149 31450 31670 34779

935 1084 1534 2918 10596 11534 17476 27269 30344 31104 37975

173 532 1766 8001 10483 17002 19002 26759 31006 43466 47443

221 610 1795 9197 11770 12793 14875 30177 30610 42274 43888

188 439 1332 7030 9246 15150 26060 26541 27190 28259 36763

812 1643 1750 7446 7888 7995 18804 21646 28995 30727 39065

44 481 555 5618 9621 9873 19182 22059 42510 45343 46058

156 532 1799 6258 18733 19988 23237 27657 30835 34738 39503

1128 1553 1790 8372 11543 13764 17062 28627 38502 40796 42461

564 777 1286 3446 5566 12105 16038 18918 21802 25954 28137

1167 1178 1770 4151 11422 11833 16823 17799 19188 22517 29979

576 638 1364 12257 22028 24243 24297 31788 36398 38409 47211

334 592 940 2865 12075 12708 21452 31961 32150 35723 46278

1205 1267 1721 9293 18685 18917 23490 27678 37645 40114 45733

189 628 821 17066 19218 21462 25452 26858 38408 38941 42354

190 951 1019 5572 7135 15647 32613 33863 33981 35670 93727

84 1003 1597 12597 15567 21221 21891 23151 23964 24816 46178

756 1262 1345 6694 6893 9300 9497 17950 19082 35668 38447

848 948 1560 6591 12529 12535 20567 23882 34481 46531 46541

504 631 777 10585 12330 13822 15388 23332 27688 35955 38051

676 1484 1575 2215 5830 6049 13558 25034 33602 35663 41025

1298 1427 1732 13930 15611 19462 20975 23200 30460 30682 34883

1491 1593 1615 4289 7010 10264 21047 26704 27024 29658 46766

969 1730 1748 2217 7181 7623 15860 21332 28133 28998 36077

302 1216 1374 5177 6849 7239 10255 34952 37908 39911 41738

220 362 1491 5235 5439 22708 29228 29481 33272 36831 46487

4 728 1279 4579 8325 8505 27604 31437 33574 41716 45082

472 735 1558 4454 6957 14867 18307 22437 38304 42054 45307

85 466 851 3669 7119 32748 32845 41914 42595 42600 45101

52 553 824 2994 4569 12505 24738 33258 37121 43381 44753

37 495 1553 7684 8908 12412 15563 16461 17872 29292 30619

254 1057 1481 9971 18408 19815 28569 29164 39281 42723 45604

16 1213 1614 4352 8091 8847 10022 24394 35661 43800 44362

395 750 888 2582 3772 4151 26025 36367 42326 42673 47393

862 1379 1441 6413 25621 28378 34869 35491 41774 44165 45411

46 213 1597 2771 4694 4923 17101 17212 19347 22002 43226

1339 1544 1610 13522 14840 15355 29399 30125 33685 36350 37672

251 1162 1260 9766 13137 34769 36646 43313 43736 43828 45151

214 1002 1688 5357 19091 19213 24460 28843 32869 35013 39791

646 733 1735 11175 11336 12043 22962 33892 35646 37116 38655

293 927 1064 4818 5842 10983 12871 17804 33127 41604 46588

10927 15514 22748 34850 37645 40669 41583 44090

3329 7548 8092 11659 16832 35304 46738 46888

3510 5915 9603 30333 37198 42866 44361 46416

2575 5311 9421 13410 15375 34017 37136 43990

12468 14492 24417 26394 38565 38936 41899 45593.

A third transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 7/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

35, 75, 166, 145, 143, 184, 62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187,144, 91, 78, 44, 39, 109, 185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94,130, 27, 171, 19, 51, 165, 148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49,120, 152, 161, 162, 147, 71, 137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92,90, 60, 99, 79, 59, 108, 115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86,117, 191, 101, 52, 15, 80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73,64, 16, 18, 146, 70, 181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113,97, 2, 6, 55, 17, 65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125,20, 106, 186, 182, 188, 114, 1, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22,190, 58, 23, 155, 138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118,121, 129, 168, 13, 128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76,50, 154, 139, 66, 85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 4680, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

1012 3997 5398 5796 21940 23609 25002 28007 32214 33822 38194

1110 4016 5752 10837 15440 15952 17802 27468 32933 33191 35420

95 1953 6554 11381 12839 12880 22901 26742 26910 27621 37825

1146 2232 5658 13131 13785 16771 17466 20561 29400 32962 36879

2023 3420 5107 10789 12303 13316 14428 24912 35363 36348 38787

3283 3637 12474 14376 20459 22584 23093 28876 31485 31742 34849

1807 3890 4865 7562 9091 13778 18361 21934 24548 34267 38260

1613 3620 10165 11464 14071 20675 20803 26814 27593 29483 36485

849 3946 8585 9208 9939 14676 14990 19276 23459 30577 36838

1890 2583 5951 6003 11943 13641 16319 18379 22957 24644 33430

1936 3939 5267 6314 12665 19626 20457 22010 27958 30238 32976

2153 4318 6782 13048 17730 17923 24137 24741 25594 32852 33209

1869 4262 6616 13522 19266 19384 22769 28883 30389 35102 36019

3037 3116 7478 7841 10627 10908 14060 14163 23772 27946 37835

1668 3125 7485 8525 14659 22834 24080 24838 30890 33391 36788

1623 2836 6776 8549 11448 23281 32033 32729 33650 34069 34607

101 1420 5172 7475 11673 18807 21367 23095 26368 30888 37882

3874 3940 4823 16485 21601 21655 21885 25541 30177 31656 35067

592 643 4847 6870 7671 10412 25081 33412 33478 33495 35976

2578 2677 12592 17140 17185 21962 23206 23838 27624 32594 34828

3058 3443 4959 21179 22411 24033 26004 26489 26775 33816 36694

91 2998 10137 11957 12444 22330 24300 26008 26441 26521 38191

889 1840 8881 10228 12495 18162 22259 23385 25687 35853 38848

1332 3031 13482 14262 15897 23112 25954 28035 34898 36286 36991

2505 2599 10980 15245 20084 20114 24496 26309 31139 34090 37258

599 1778 8935 16154 19546 23537 24938 32059 32406 35564 37175

392 1777 4793 8050 10543 10668 14823 25252 32922 36658 37832

1680 2630 7190 7880 10894 20675 27523 33460 33733 34000 35829

532 3750 5075 10603 12466 19838 24231 24998 27647 35111 38617

1786 3066 11367 12452 13896 15346 24646 25509 26109 30358 37392

1027 1659 6483 16919 17636 18905 19741 30579 35934 36515 37617

2064 2354 14085 16460 21378 21719 22981 23329 31701 32057 32640

2009 4421 7595 8790 12803 17649 18527 24246 27584 28757 31794

364 646 9398 13898 17486 17709 20911 31493 31810 32019 33341

2246 3760 4911 19338 25792 27511 28689 30634 3928 34984 36605

3178 3544 8858 9336 9602 12290 16521 27872 28391 28422 36105

1981 2209 12718 20656 21253 22574 28653 29967 33692 36759 37871

787 1545 7652 8376 9628 9995 10289 16260 17606 22673 34564

795 4580 12749 16670 18727 19131 19449 26152 29165 30820 31678

1577 2980 8659 12301 13813 14838 20782 23068 30185 34308 34676

84 434 13572 21777 24581 28397 28490 32547 33282 34655 37579

2927 4440 8979 14992 19009 20435 23558 26280 31320 35106 37704

1974 2712 6552 6585 10051 14848 15186 22968 24285 25878 36054

585 1990 3457 5010 8808

9 2792 4678 22666 32922

342 507 861 18844 32947

554 3395 4094 8147 34616

356 2061 2801 20330 38214

425 2432 4573 7323 28157

73 1192 2618 7812 17947

842 1053 4088 10818 24053

1234 1249 4171 6645 37350

1498 2113 4175 6432 17014

524 2135 2205 6311 7502

191 954 3166 28938 31869

548 586 4101 12129 25819

127 2352 3215 6791 13523

286 4262 4423 14087 38061

1645 3551 4209 14083 15827

719 1087 2813 32857 34499

651 2752 4548 25139 25514

1702 4186 4478 10785 33263

34 3157 4196 5811 36555

643 649 1524 6581 2/246

291 836 1036 18936 19201

78 1099 4174 18305 36119

3083 3173 4667 27349 32057

3449 4090 4339 18334 24596

503 3816 4465 29204 35316

102 1693 1799 17180 35877

288 324 1237 16167 33970

224 2831 3571 17861 28530

1202 2803 2834 4943 31485

1112 2196 3027 29308 37101

4242 4291 4503 16344 28769

1020 1927 3349 9686 33845

3179 3304 3891 8448 37247

1076 2319 4512 17010 18781

987 1391 3781 12318 35710

2268 3467 3619 15764 25608

764 1135 2224 8647 17486

2091 4081 4648 8101 33818

471 3668 4069 14925 36242

932 2140 3428 12523 33270

5840 8959 12039 15972 38496

5960 7759 10493 31160 38054

10380 14835 26024 35399 36517

5260 7306 13419 28804 31112

12717 23075 32458 36239 37437

14096 16976 21598 32228 34672

5024 5769 21798 22675 25316

8617 14189 17874 22776 29780

7628 13623 16676 30019 33213

14090 14254 18987 21720 38550

17306 17709 19135 22995 28597

13137 18028 23943 27468 37156

7704 8171 10815 28138 29526.

A third reception device of the present technology is a reception deviceincluding a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to return thesequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to the originalsequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmitted from atransmission device including a coding unit configured to perform LDPCcoding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a codelength N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 7/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof un form constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

35, 75, 166, 145, 143, 184, 62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187,144, 91, 78, 44, 39, 109, 185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94,130, 27, 171, 19, 51, 165, 148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49,120, 152, 161, 162, 147, 71, 137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92,90, 60, 99, 79, 59, 108, 115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86,117, 191, 101, 52, 15, 80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73,64, 16, 18, 146, 70, 181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113,97, 2, 6, 55, 17, 65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125,20, 106, 186, 182, 188, 114, 1, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22,190, 58, 23, 155, 138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118,121, 129, 168, 13, 128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76,50, 154, 139, 66, 85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122,

the parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 4680, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is

1012 3997 5398 5796 21940 23609 25002 28007 32214 33822 38194

1110 4016 5752 10837 15440 15952 17802 27468 32933 33191 35420

95 1953 6554 11381 12839 12880 22901 26742 26910 27621 37825

1146 2232 5658 13131 13785 167/1 17466 20561 29400 32962 36879

2023 3420 5107 10789 12303 13316 14428 24912 35363 36348 38787

3283 3637 12474 14376 20459 22584 23093 28876 31485 31742 34849

1807 3890 4865 7562 9091 13778 18361 21934 24548 34267 38260

1613 3620 10165 11464 14071 20675 20803 26814 27593 29483 36485

849 3946 8585 9208 9939 14676 14990 19276 23459 30577 36838

1890 2583 5951 6003 11943 13641 16319 18379 22957 24644 33430

1936 3939 5267 6314 12665 19626 20457 22010 27958 30238 32976

2153 4318 6782 13048 17730 17923 24137 24741 25594 32852 33209

1869 4262 6616 13522 19266 19384 22769 2888 30389 35102 36019

3037 3116 7478 7841 10627 10908 14060 14163 23772 27946 37835

1668 3125 7485 8525 14659 22834 24080 24838 30890 33391 36788

1623 2836 6776 8549 11448 23281 32033 32729 33650 34069 34607

101 1420 5172 7475 11673 18807 21367 23095 26368 30888 37882

3874 3940 4823 16485 21601 21655 21885 25541 30177 31656 35067

592 643 4847 6870 7671 10412 25081 33412 33478 33495 35976

2578 2677 12592 17140 17185 21962 23206 23838 27624 32594 34828

3058 3443 4959 21179 22411 24033 26004 26489 26775 33816 36694

91 2998 10137 11957 12444 22330 24300 26008 26441 26521 38191

889 1840 8881 10228 12495 18162 22259 23385 25687 35853 38848

1332 3031 13482 14262 15897 23112 25954 28035 34898 36286 36991

2505 2599 10980 15245 20084 20114 24496 26309 31139 34090 37258

599 1778 8935 16154 19546 23537 24938 32059 32406 35564 37175

392 1777 4793 8050 10543 10668 14823 25252 32922 36658 37832

1680 2630 7190 7880 10894 20675 27523 333460 33733 34000 35829

532 3750 5075 10603 12466 19838 24231 24998 27647 35111 38617

1786 3066 11367 12452 13896 15346 24646 25509 26109 30358 37392

1027 1659 6483 16919 17636 18905 19741 30579 35934 36515 37617

2064 2354 14085 16460 21378 21719 22981 23329 31701 32057 32640

2009 4421 7595 8790 12803 17649 18527 24246 27584 28757 31794

364 646 9398 13898 17486 17709 20911 31493 31810 32019 33341

2246 3760 4911 19338 25792 27511 28689 30634 31928 34984 36605

3178 3544 8858 9336 9602 12290 16521 27872 28391 28422 36105

1981 2209 12718 20656 21253 22574 28653 29967 33692 36759 37871

787 1545 7652 8376 9628 9995 10289 16260 17606 22673 34564

795 4580 12749 16670 18727 19131 19449 26152 29165 30820 31678

1577 2980 8659 12301 13813 14838 20782 23068 30185 34308 34676

84 434 13572 21777 24581 28397 28490 32547 33282 34655 37579

2927 4440 8979 14992 19009 20435 23558 26280 31320 35106 37704

1974 2712 6552 8585 10051 14848 15186 22968 24285 25878 36054

585 1990 3457 5010 8808

9 2792 4678 22666 32922

342 507 861 18844 32947

554 3395 4094 8147 34616

356 2061 2801 20330 38214

425 2432 4573 7323 28157

73 1192 2618 7812 17947

842 1053 4088 10818 24053

1234 1249 4171 6645 37350

1498 2113 4175 6432 17014

524 2135 2205 6311 7502

191 954 3166 28938 31869

548 586 4101 12129 25819

127 2352 3215 6791 13523

286 4262 4423 14087 38061

1645 3551 4209 14083 15827

719 1087 2813 32857 34499

651 2752 4548 25139 25514

1702 4186 4478 10785 33263

34 3157 4196 5811 36555

643 649 1524 6587 27246

291 836 1036 18936 19201

78 1099 4174 18305 36119

3083 3173 4667 27349 32057

3449 4090 4339 18334 24596

503 3816 4465 29204 35316

102 1693 1799 17180 35877

288 324 1237 16167 33970

224 2831 3571 17861 28530

1202 2803 2834 4943 31485

1112 2196 3027 29308 37101

4242 4291 4503 16344 28769

1020 1927 3349 9686 33845

3179 3304 3891 8448 37247

1076 2319 4512 17010 18781

987 1391 3781 12318 35710

2268 3467 3619 15764 25608

764 1135 2224 8647 17486

2091 4081 4648 8101 33818

471 3668 4069 14925 36242

932 2140 3428 12523 33270

5840 8959 12039 15972 38496

5960 7759 10493 31160 38054

10380 14835 26024 35399 36517

5260 7306 13419 28804 31112

12747 23075 32458 36239 37437

14096 16976 21598 32228 34672

5024 5769 21798 22675 25316

8617 14189 17874 22776 29780

7628 13623 16676 30019 33213

14090 14254 18987 21720 38550

17306 17709 19135 22995 28597

13137 18028 23943 27468 37156

7704 8171 10815 28138 29526.

A fourth transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 9/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79, 59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32,54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34, 161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178,179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29, 67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 176, 16,71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2, 177, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61,117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162, 23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159,133, 8, 152, 103, 102, 151, 143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62,20, 83, 7 187, 153, 64, 37, 144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122,127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189, 124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77,82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63, 148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70,182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136, 169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106,35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50, 72, 85, 40, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138,43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, 56, 107, 92, 147, 47, 30 73, 167,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit, is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is

110 3064 6740 7801 10228 13445 17599 17891 17979 18044 19923 21848 2326225585 25968 30124

1578 8914 9141 9731 10605 11690 12824 18127 18458 24648 24950 2515026323 26514 27385 27460

3054 3640 3923 7332 10770 12215 14455 14849 15619 20870 22033 2642728067 28560 29777 29780

1348 4248 5479 8902 9101 9356 10581 11614 12813 21554 22985 23701 2409924575 24786 27370

3266 8358 16544 16689 16693 16823 17565 18543 19229 21121 23799 2498125423 28997 29808 30202

320 1198 1549 5407 6080 8542 9352 12418 13391 14736 15012 18328 1939823391 28117 28793

2114 3294 3770 5225 5556 5991 7075 7889 11145 11386 16561 18956 1903423605 26085 27132

3623 4011 4225 5249 5489 5711 7240 9831 10458 14697 15420 16015 1778223244 24215 24386

2624 2750 3871 8247 11135 13702 19290 22209 22975 23811 23931 2487225154 25165 28375 30200

1060 1240 2040 2382 7723 9165 9656 10398 14517 16653 21241 22348 2347627203 28443 28445

1070 1233 3416 6633 11736 12808 15454 16505 18720 20162 21425 2187426069 26855 27292 27978

420 5524 10279 11218 12500 12913 15389 15824 19414 19588 21138 2384626621 27907 28594 28781

151 1356 2323 3289 4501 10573 13667 14642 16127 17040 17475 18055 2406126204 26567 29277

1410 3656 4080 6963 8834 10527 17490 17584 18065 19234 22211 22338 2374624662 29863 30227

1924 2694 3285 8761 9693 11005 17592 21259 21322 21546 21555 24044 2417326988 27640 28506

1069 6483 6554 9027 11655 12453 16595 17877 18350 18995 21304 2144223836 25468 28820 29453

149 1621 2199 3141 8403 11974 14969 16197 18844 21027 21921 22266 2239922691 25727 27721

3689 4839 7971 8419 10500 12308 13435 14487 16502 16622 17229 1746822710 23904 25074 28508

1270 7007 9830 12698 14204 16075 17613 19391 21362 21726 21816 2301423651 26419 26748 27195

96 1953 2456 2712 2809 3196 5939 10634 21828 24606 26169 26801 2739128578 29725 30142

832 3394 4145 5375 6199 7122 7405 7706 10136 10792 15058 15860 2188123908 25174 25837

730 1735 2917 4106 5004 5849 8194 8943 9136 17599 18456 20191 2279827935 29559

6238 6776 6799 9142 11199 11867 15979 16830 18110 18396 21897 2259024020 29578 29644

407 2138 4493 7979 8225 9467 11956 12940 15566 15809 16058 18211 2207328314 28713

957 1552 1869 4388 7642 7904 13408 13453 16431 19327 21444 22188 2571928511 29192

3617 8663 22378 28704

8598 12647 19278 22416

15176 16377 16644 22732

12463 12711 18341

11079 13446 29071

2446 4068 8542

10838 11660 27428

16403 21750 23199

9181 16572 18381

7227 18770 21858

7379 9316 16247

8923 14861 29618

6531 24652 26817

5564 8875 18025

8019 14642 21169

16683 17257 29298

4078 6023 8853

13942 15217 15501

7484 8302 27199

671 14966 20886

1240 11897 14925

12800 25474 28603

3576 5308 11168

13430 15265 18232

3439 5544 21849

3257 16996 23750

1865 14153 22669

7640 15098 17364

6137 19401 24836

5986 9035 11444

4799 20865 29150

8360 23554 29246

2002 18215 22258

9679 11951 26583

2844 12330 18156

3744 6949 14754

8262 10288 27142

1087 16563 22815

1328 13273 21749

2092 9191 28045

3250 10549 18252

13975 15172 17135

2520 26310 28787

4395 8961 26753

6413 15437 19520

5809 10936 17089

1670 13574 25125

5865 6175 21175

8391 11680 22660

5485 11743 15165

21021 21798 30209

12519 13402 26300

3472 25935 26412

3377 7398 28867

2430 24650 29426

3364 13409 22914

6838 13491 16229

18393 20764 28078

289 20279 24906

4732 6162 13569

8993 17053 29387

2210 5024 24030

21 22976 24053

12359 15499 28251

4640 11480 24391

1083 7965 16573

13116 23916 24421

10129 16284 23855

1758 3843 21163

5626 13543 26708

14918 17713 21718

13556 20450 24679

3911 16778 29952

11735 13710 22611

5347 21681 22906

6912 12045 15866

713 15429 23281

7133 17440 28982

12355 17564 28059

7658 11158 29885

17610 18755 28852

7680 16212 30111

8812 10144 15718.

A fourth reception device of the present technology is a receptiondevice including a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to returnthe sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to theoriginal sequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmittedfrom a transmission device including a coding unit configured to performLDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having acode length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 9/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79, 59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32,54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34, 161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178,179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29, 67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 176, 16,71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2, 177, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61,117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162, 23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159,133, 8, 152, 103, 102, 151, 143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62,20, 83, 7, 187, 153, 64, 37, 144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122,127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189, 124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77,82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63, 148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70,182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136, 169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106,35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50, 72, 85, 40, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138,43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, 1, 56, 107, 92, 147, 47, 30, 73, 167,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is

110 3064 6740 7801 10228 13445 17599 17891 17979 18044 19923 21848 2326225585 25968 30124

1578 8914 9141 9731 10605 11690 12824 18127 18458 24648 24950 2515026323 26514 27385 27460

3054 3640 3923 7332 10770 12215 14455 14849 15619 20870 22033 2642728067 28560 29777 29780

1348 4248 5479 8902 9101 9356 10581 11614 12813 21554 22985 23701 2409924575 24786 27370

3266 8358 16544 16689 16693 16823 17565 18543 19229 21121 23799 2498125423 28997 29808 30202

320 1198 1549 5407 6080 8542 9352 12418 13391 14736 15012 18328 1939823391 28117 28793

2114 3294 3770 5225 5556 5991 7075 7889 11145 11386 16561 18956 1903423605 26085 27132

3623 4011 4225 5249 5489 5711 7240 9831 10458 14697 15420 16015 1778223244 24215 24386

2624 2750 3871 8247 11135 13702 19290 22209 22975 23811 23931 2487225154 25165 28375 30200

1060 1240 2040 2382 7723 9165 9656 10398 14517 16653 21241 22348 2347627203 28443 28445

1070 1233 3416 6633 11736 12808 15454 16505 18720 20162 21425 2187426069 26855 27292 27978

420 5524 10279 11218 12500 12913 15389 15824 19414 19588 21138 2384626621 27907 28594 28781

151 1356 2323 3289 4501 10573 13667 14642 16127 17040 17475 18055 2406126204 26567 29277

1410 3656 4080 6963 8834 10527 17490 17584 18065 19234 22211 22338 2374629662 29863 30227

1924 2694 3285 8761 9693 11005 17592 21259 21322 21546 21555 24044 2417326988 27640 28506

1069 6483 6554 9027 11655 12453 16595 17877 18350 18995 21304 2144223836 25468 28820 29453

149 1621 2199 3141 8403 11974 14969 16197 18844 21027 21921 22266 2239922691 25727 27721

3689 4839 7971 8419 10500 12308 13435 14487 16502 16622 17229 1746822710 23904 25074 28508

1270 7007 9830 12698 14204 16075 17613 19391 21362 21726 21816 2301423651 26419 26748 27195

96 1953 2456 2712 2809 3196 5939 10634 21828 24606 26169 26801 2739128578 29725 30142

832 3394 4145 5375 6199 7122 7405 7706 10136 10792 15058 15860 2188123908 25174 25837

730 1735 2917 4106 5004 5849 8194 8943 9136 17599 18456 20191 2279827935 29559

6238 6776 6799 9142 11199 11867 15979 16830 18110 18396 21897 2259024020 29578 29644

407 2138 4493 7979 8225 9467 11956 12940 15566 15809 16058 18211 2207328314 28713

957 1552 1869 4388 7642 7904 13408 13453 16431 19327 21444 22188 2571928511 29192

3617 8663 22378 28704

8598 12647 19278 22416

15176 16377 16644 22732

12463 12711 18341

11079 13446 29071

2446 4068 8542

10838 11660 27428

16403 21750 23199

9181 16572 18381

7227 18770 21858

7379 9316 16247

8923 14861 29618

6531 24652 26817

5564 8875 18025

8019 14642 21169

16683 17257 29298

4078 6023 8853

13942 15217 15501

7481 8302 27199

671 14966 20886

1240 11897 14925

12800 25474 28603

3576 5308 11168

13430 15265 18232

3439 5544 21649

3257 16996 23750

1865 14153 22669

7640 15098 17364

6137 19401 24836

5986 9035 11444

4799 20865 29150

8360 23554 29246

2002 18215 22258

9679 11951 26583

2844 12330 18156

3744 6949 14754

8262 10288 27142

1087 16563 22815

1328 13273 21749

2092 9191 28045

3250 10549 18252

13975 15172 17135

2520 26310 28787

4395 8961 26753

6413 15437 19520

5809 10936 17089

1670 13574 25125

5865 6175 21175

8391 11680 22660

5485 11743 15165

21021 21798 30209

12519 13402 26300

3472 25935 26412

3377 7398 28867

2430 24650 29426

3364 13409 22914

6838 13491 16229

18393 20764 28078

289 20279 24906

4732 6162 13569

8993 17053 29387

2210 5024 24030

21 22976 24053

12359 15499 28251

4640 11480 24391

1083 7965 16573

13116 23916 24421

10129 16284 23855

1758 3843 21163

5626 13543 26708

14918 17713 21718

13556 20450 24679

3911 16778 29952

11735 13710 22611

5347 21681 22906

6912 12045 15866

713 15429 23281

7133 17440 28982

12355 17564 28059

7658 11158 29885

17610 18755 28852

7680 16212 30111

8812 10144 15718.

A fifth transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 11/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LOPS code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 2, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70,124, 128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 83, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179,123, 183, 26, 188, 15, 163, 1, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180,185, 190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176,147, 189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135,71, 181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10,49, 80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19,27, 41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84,109, 104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129,159, 55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 143, 11, 93,62, 177, 64, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54,89, 99, 120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is

983 2226 4091 5418 5824 6483 6914 8239 8364 10220 10322 15658 1692817307 18061

1584 5655 6787 7213 7270 8585 8995 9294 9832 9982 11185 12221 1288917573 19096

319 1077 1796 2421 6574 11763 13465 14527 15147 15218 16000 18284 2019921095 21194

767 1018 3780 3826 4288 4855 7169 7431 9151 10097 10919 12050 1326119816 20932

173 692 3552 5046 6523 6784 9542 10482 14658 14663 15168 16153 1641017546 20989

2214 2286 2445 2856 3562 3615 3970 6065 7117 7989 8180 15971 20253 2131221428 532 1361 1905 3577 5147 10409 11348 11660 15230 17283 18724 2019020542 21159 21282

3242 5061 7587 7677 8614 8834 9130 9135 9331 13480 13544 14263 1543820548 21174

1507 4159 4946 5215 5653 6385 7131 8049 10198 10499 12215 14105 1611817016 21371

212 1856 1981 2056 6766 8123 10128 10957 11159 11237 12893 14064 1776018933 19009

329 5552 5948 6484 10108 10127 10816 13210 14985 15110 15565 15969 1713618504 20818

4753 5744 6511 7062 7355 8379 8817 13503 13650 14014 15393 15640 1812718595 20426

1152 1707 4013 5932 8540 9077 11521 11923 11954 12529 13519 15641 1626217874 19386

858 2355 2511 3125 5531 6472 8146 11423 11558 11760 13556 15194 2078220988 21261

216 1722 2750 3809 6210 8233 9183 10734 11339 12321 12898 15902 1743719085 21588

1560 1718 1757 2292 2349 3992 6943 7369 7806 10282 11373 13624 1460817087 18011

1375 1640 2015 2539 2691 2967 4344 7125 9176 9435 12378 12520 1290115704 18897

1703 2861 2986 3574 7208 8486 9412 9879 13027 13945 14873 15546 1651618931 21070

309 1587 3118 5472 10035 13988 15019 15322 16373 17580 17728 18125 1887219876 20457

984 991 1203 3159 4303 5734 8850 9626 12217 17227 17269 18695 1885419580 19684

2429 6165 6828 7761 9761 9899 9942 10151 11198 11271 13184 14026 1456018962 20570

876 1074 5177 5185 6415 6451 10856 11603 14590 14658 16293 17221 1927319319 20447

557 607 2473 5002 6601 9876 10284 10809 13563 14849 15710 16798 1750918927 21306

939 1271 3085 5054 5723 5959 7530 10912 13375 16696 18753 19673 2032821068 21258

2802 3312 5015 6041 6943 7606 9375 12116 12868 12964 13374 13594 1497816125 18621

3002 6512 6965 6967 8504 10777 11217 11931 12647 12686 12740 12900 1295813870 17860

151 3874 4228 7837 10244 10589 14530 15323 16462 17711 18995 19363 1937619540 20641

1249 2946 2959 3330 4264 7797 10652 11845 12987 15974 16536 17520 1985120150 20172

4769 11033 1497

1431 2870 15158

9416 14905 20800

1708 9944 16952

1116 1179 20743

3665 8987 16223

655 11424 17411

42 2717 11613

2787 9015 15081

3718 7305 11822

18306 18499 18843

1208 4586 10578

9494 12676 13710

10580 15127 20614

4439 15646 19861

5255 12337 14649

2532 7552 10813

1591 7781 13020

7264 8634 17208

7462 10069 17710

1320 3382 6439

4057 9762 11401

1618 7604 19881

3858 16826 17768

6158 11759 19274

3767 11872 15137

2111 5563 16776

1888 15452 17925

2840 15375 16376

3695 11232 16970

10181 16329 17920

9743 13974 17724

29 16450 20509

2393 17877 19591

1827 15175 15366

3771 14716 18363

5585 14762 19813

7186 8104 12067

2554 12025 15873

2208 5739 6150

2816 12745 17143

9363 11582 17976

5834 8178 12517

3546 15667 19511

5211 10685 20833

3399 7774 16435

3767 4542 8775

4409 6349 19426

4812 11088 16761

5761 11289 17985

9989 11488 15986

10200 16710 20899

6970 12774 20558

1304 2495 3507

5236 7678 10437

4493 10472 19880

1883 14768 21100

352 18797 20570

1411 3221 4379

3304 11013 18382

14864 16951 18782

2887 15658 17633

7109 7383 19956

4293 12990 13934

9890 15206 15786

2987 5455 8787

5782 7137 15981

736 1961 10441

2728 11808 21305

4663 4693 13680

1965 3668 9025

818 10532 16332

7006 16717 21102

2955 15500 20140

8274 13451 19436

3604 13158 21154

5519 6531 9995

1629 17919 18532

15199 16690 16884

5177 5869 14843

5 5088 19940

16910 20686 21206

10662 11610 17578

3378 4579 12849

5947 19300 19762

2545 10686 12579

4568 10814 19032

677 18652 18992

190 11377 12987

4183 6801 20025

6944 8321 15868

3311 6049 14757

7155 11435 16353

4778 5674 15973

1889 3361 7563

467 5999 10103

7613 11096 19536

2244 4442 6000

9055 13516 15414

4831 6111 10744

3792 8258 15106

6990 9168 17589

7920 11548 20786

10533 14361 19577.

A fifth reception device of the present technology is a reception deviceincluding a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to return thesequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to the originalsequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmitted from atransmission device including a coding unit configured to perform LDPCcoding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having acode length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 11/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70, 124,128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 63, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179, 123,183, 26, 188, 15, 163, 1, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180, 185,190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176, 147,189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135, 71,181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10, 49,80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19, 27,41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84, 109,104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129, 159,55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 11, 93, 62, 177,64, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54, 89, 99,120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is 983 2226 4091 54185824 6483 6914 8239 8364 10220 10322 15658 16928 17307 18061

1584 5655 6787 7213 7270 8585 8995 9294 9832 9982 11185 12221 1288917573 19096

319 1077 1796 2421 6574 11763 13465 14527 15147 15218 16000 18284 2019921095 21194

767 1018 3780 3826 4288 4855 7169 7431 9151 10097 10919 12050 1326119816 20932

173 692 3552 5046 6523 6784 9542 10482 14658 14663 15168 16153 1641017546 20989

2214 2286 2445 2856 3562 3615 3970 6065 7117 7989 8180 15971 20253 2131221428 532 1361 1905 3577 5147 10409 11348 11660 15230 17283 18724 2019020542 21159 21282

3242 5061 7587 7677 8614 8834 9130 9135 9331 13480 13544 14263 1543820548 21174

1507 4159 4946 5215 5653 6385 7131 8049 10198 10499 12215 14105 1611817016 21371

212 1856 1981 2056 6766 8123 10128 10957 11159 11237 12893 14064 1776018933 19009

329 5552 5948 6484 10108 10127 10816 13210 14985 15110 15565 15969 1713618504 20818

4753 5744 6511 7062 7355 8379 8817 13503 13650 14014 15393 15640 1812718595 20426

1152 1707 4013 5932 8540 9077 11521 11923 11954 12529 13519 156 1626217874 19386

858 2355 2511 3125 5531 6472 8146 11423 11558 11760 13556 15194 2078220988 21261

216 1722 2750 3809 6210 8233 9183 10734 11339 12321 12898 15902 1743719085 21588

1560 1718 1757 2292 2349 3992 6943 7369 7806 10282 11373 13624 1460817087 18011

1375 1640 2015 2539 2691 2967 4344 7125 9176 9435 12378 12520 1290115704 18897

1703 2861 2986 3574 7208 8486 9412 9879 13027 13945 14873 15546 1651618931 21070

309 1587 3118 5472 10035 13988 15019 15322 16373 17580 17728 18125 1887219876 20457

984 991 1203 3159 4303 5734 8850 9626 12217 17227 17269 18695 1885419580 19684

2429 6165 6828 7761 9761 9899 9942 10151 11198 11271 13184 14026 1456018962 20570

876 1074 5177 5185 6415 6451 10856 11603 14590 14658 16293 17221 1927319319 20447

557 607 2473 5002 6601 9876 10284 10809 13563 14849 15710 16798 1750918927 21306

939 1271 3085 5054 5723 5959 7530 10912 13375 16696 18753 19673 2032821068 21258

2802 3312 5015 6041 6943 7606 9375 12116 12868 12964 13374 13594 1497816125 18621

3002 6512 6965 6967 8504 10777 11217 11931 12647 12686 12740 12900 1295813870 17860

151 3874 4228 7837 10244 10589 14530 15323 16462 17711 18995 19363 1937619540 20641

1249 2946 2959 3330 4264 7797 10652 11845 12987 15974 16536 17520 1985120150 20172

4769 11033 1497

1431 2870 15158

9416 14905 20800

1708 9944 16952

1116 1179 20743

3665 8987 16223

655 11424 17411

42 2717 11613

2787 9015 15081

3718 7305 11822

18306 18499 18843

1208 4586 10578

9494 12676 13710

10580 15127 20614

4439 15646 19861

5255 12337 14649

2532 7552 10813

1591 7781 13020

7264 8634 17208

7462 10069 17710

1320 3382 6439

4057 9762 11401

1618 7604 19881

3858 16826 17768

6158 11759 19274

3767 11872 15137

2111 5563 16776

1888 15452 17925

2840 15375 16376

3695 11232 16970

10181 16329 17920

9743 13974 17724

29 16450 20509

2393 17877 19591

1827 15175 15366

3771 14716 18363

5585 14762 19813

7186 8104 12067

2554 12025 15873

2208 5739 6150

2816 12745 17143

9363 11582 17976

5834 8178 12517

3546 15667 19511

5211 10685 20833

3399 7774 16435

3767 4542 8775

4404 6349 19426

4812 11088 16761

5761 11289 17985

9989 11488 15986

10200 16710 20899

6970 12774 20558

1304 2495 3507

5236 7678 10437

4493 10472 19880

1883 14768 21100

352 18797 20570

1411 3221 4379

3304 11013 18382

14864 16951 18782

2887 15658 17633

7109 7383 19956

4293 12990 13934

9890 15206 15786

2987 5455 8787

5782 7137 15981

736 1961 10441

2728 11808 21305

4663 4693 13680

1965 3668 9025

818 10532 16332

7006 16717 21102

2955 15500 20140

8274 13451 19436

3604 13158 21154

5519 6531 9995

1629 17919 18532

15199 16690 16884

5177 5869 14843

5 5088 19940

16910 20686 21206

10662 11610 17578

3378 4579 12849

5947 19300 19762

2545 10686 12579

4568 10814 19032

677 18652 18992

190 11377 12987

4183 6801 20025

6944 8321 15868

3311 6049 14757

7155 11435 16353

4778 5674 15973

1889 3361 7563

467 5999 10103

7613 11096 19536

2244 4442 6000

9055 13516 15414

4831 6111 10744

3792 8258 15106

6990 9168 17589

7920 11548 20786

10533 14361 19577.

A sixth transmission method of the present technology is a transmissionmethod including a coding step of performing LDPC coding on the basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 13/16, a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups

140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27, 109, 121, 153, 58, 181, 143, 164, 103,115, 91, 66, 60, 189, 101, 4, 14, 102, 45, 124, 104, 159, 130, 133, 135,77, 25, 59, 180, 141, 144, 62, 114, 182, 134, 148, 11, 20, 125, 83, 162,75, 126, 67, 9, 178, 171, 152, 166, 69, 174, 15, 80, 168, 131, 95, 56,48, 63, 82, 147, 51, 108, 52, 30, 139, 22, 37, 173, 112, 191, 98, 116,149, 167, 142, 29, 154, 92, 94, 71, 117, 79, 122, 129, 21, 81, 105, 97,137, 128, 1, 113, 170, 119, 7, 158, 76, 19, 183, 68, 31, 50, 118, 33,72, 55, 65, 146, 185, 111, 145, 28, 21, 177, 160, 32, 61, 70, 106, 156,78, 132, 88, 184, 35, 5, 53, 138, 47, 100, 10, 42, 36, 175, 93, 120,190, 16, 123, 87, 54, 186, 18, 57, 84, 99, 12, 163, 157, 188, 64, 38,26, 2, 136, 40, 169, 90, 107, 46, 172, 49, 6, 39, 44, 150, 85, 0, 17,127, 155, 110, 34, 96, 74, 86, 187, 89, 151, 43, 179, 161, 73, 23, 3,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is

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589 1564 1747 2960 3833 4502 7491 7746 8196 9567 9574 10187 10591 12947

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2774 2830 3918 4148 4963 5356 7125 7645 7868 8137 9119 9189 9206 12363

59 448 947 3622 5139 8115 9364 9548 9609 9750 10212 10937 11044 12668

715 1352 4538 5277 5729 6210 6418 6938 7090 7109 7386 9012 10737 11893

1583 2059 3398 3619 4277 6896 7484 7525 8284 9318 9817 10227 11636 12204

53 549 3010 5441 6090 9175 9336 9358 9839 10117 11307 11467 11507 12902

861 1054 1177 1201 1383 2538 4563 6451 6800 10540 11222 11757 1224012732

330 1450 1798 2301 2652 3038 3187 3277 4324 4610 9395 10240 10796 11100

316 751 1226 1746 2124 2505 3497 3833 3891 7551 8696 9763 11978 12661

2677 2888 2904 3923 4804 5105 6855 7222 7893 7907 9674 10274 12683 12702

173 3397 3520 5131 5560 6666 6783 6893 7742 7842 9364 9442 12287

421 943 1893 1920 3273 4052 5758 5787 7043 11051 12141 12209 12500

679 792 2543 3243 3385 3576 4190 7501 8233 8302 9212 9522 12286

911 3651 4023 4462 4650 5336 5762 6506 8050 8381 9636 9724 12486

1373 1728 1911 4101 4913 5003 6859 7137 8035 9056 9378 9937 10184

515 2357 2779 2797 3163 3845 3976 6969 7704 9104 10102 11507 12700

270 1744 1804 3432 3782 4643 5946 6279 6549 7064 7393 11659 12002

261 1517 2269 3554 4762 5103 5460 6429 6464 8962 9651 10927 12268

782 1217 1395 2383 5754 6060 6540 7109 7286 7438 7846 9488 10119

2070 2247 2589 2644 3270 3875 4901 6475 8953 10090 10629 12496 12547

863 1190 1609 2971 3564 4148 5123 5262 6301 7797 7804 9517 11408

449 488 865 3549 3939 4410 4500 5700 7120 8778 9223 11660 12021

1107 1408 1883 2752 3818 4714 5979 6485 7314 7821 11290 11472 12325

713 2492 2507 2641 3576 4711 5021 5831 7334 8362 9094 9690 10778

1487 2344 5035 5336 5727 6495 9009 9345 11090 11261 11314 12383 12944

1038 1463 1472 2944 3202 5742 5793 6972 7853 8919 9808 10549 12619

134 957 2018 2140 2629 3884 5821 7319 8676 10305 10670 12031 12588

5294 9842

4396 6648

2863 5308

10467 11711

3412 6909

450 3919

5639 9801

298 4323

397 10223

4424 9051

2038 2376

5889 11321 12500

3590 4081 12684

3485 4016 9826

6 2869 8310

5983 9818 10877

2282 9346 11477

4931 6135 10473

300 2901 9937

3185 5215 7479

472 5845 5915

2476 7687 11934

3279 8782 11527

4350 7138 7144

7454 7818 8253

1391 8717 8844

1940 4736 10556

5471 7344 8089

9157 10640 11919

1343 5402 12724

2581 4118 8142

5165 9328 11386

7222 7262 12955

6711 11224 11737

401 3195 11940

6114 6969 8208

1402 7917 9738

965 7700 10139

3428 5767 12000

3501 7052 8803

1447 10504 10961

1870 1914 7762

613 2063 10520

3561 6480 10466

3389 3887 10110

995 1104 1640

1492 4122 7572

3243 9765 12415

7297 11200 11533

1959 10325 11306

1675 5313 11475

3621 4658 12790

4208 5650 8687

2467 7691 11886

3039 3190 5017

866 1375 2272

4371 6453 8228

2763 4668 4749

640 1346 6924

6588 6983 10075

3389 9260 12508

89 5799 9973

1290 2978 8038

317 742 8017

5378 5618 6586

3369 3827 4536

1000 10436 12288

3762 11384 11897

848 874 8968

1001 4751 12066

1788 6685 12397

5721 8247 9005

649 7547 9837

2263 9415 10862

3954 4111 7767

952 4393 5523

8132 8580 10906

4191 9677 12585

1071 10601 11106

3069 6943 11015

5555 8088 9537

85 2810 3100

1249 8418 8684

2743 12099 12686

2908 3691 9890

10172 10409 11615

8358 10584 12082

4902 6310 8368

4976 10047 11299

7325 8228 11092

4942 6974 8533

5782 9780 9869

15 4728 10395

369 1900 11517

3796 7434 9085

2473 9813 12636

1472 3557 6607

174 3715 4811

6263 6694 8114

4538 6635 01

3199 8348 10057

6176 7498 7937

1837 3382 5688

8897 11342 11680

455 6465 7428

1900 3666 8968

3481 6308 10199

159 2654 12150

5602 6695 12897

3309 4899 6415

6 99 7615

1722 6386 11112

5090 8873 10718

4164 6731 12121

367 846 7678

222 6050 12711

3154 7149 7557

1556 4667 7990

2536 9712 9932

4104 7040 9983

6365 11604 12457

3393 10323 10743

724 2237 5455

108 1705 6151.

A sixth reception device of the present technology is a reception deviceincluding a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to return thesequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to the originalsequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmitted from atransmission device including a coding unit configured to perform LDPCcoding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having acode length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 13/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, in which, inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27, 109, 121, 153, 58, 181, 143, 164, 103,115, 91, 66, 60, 189, 101, 4, 14, 102, 45, 124, 104, 159, 130, 133, 135,77, 25, 59, 180, 141, 144, 62, 114, 182, 134, 148, 11, 20, 125, 83, 162,75, 126, 67, 9, 178, 171, 152, 166, 69, 174, 15, 80, 168, 131, 95, 56,18, 63, 82, 147, 51, 108, 52, 30, 139, 22, 37, 173, 112, 191, 98, 116,149, 167, 142, 29, 154, 92, 94, 71, 117, 79, 122, 129, 24, 81, 105, 97,137, 128, 1, 113, 170, 119, 7, 158, 76, 19, 183, 68, 31, 50, 118, 33,72, 55, 65, 146, 185, 111, 145, 28, 21, 177, 160, 32, 61, 70, 106, 156,78, 132, 88, 184, 35, 5, 53, 138, 47, 100, 10, 42, 36, 175, 93, 120,190, 16, 123, 87, 54, 186, 18, 57, 84, 99, 12, 163, 157, 188, 64, 38,26, 2, 136, 40, 169, 90, 107, 46, 172, 49, 6, 39, 44, 150, 85, 0, 17,127, 155, 110, 34, 96, 74, 86, 187, 89, 151, 43, 179, 161, 73, 23, 3,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit, is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is

1031 4123 6253 6610 8007 8656 9181 9404 9596 11501 11654 11710 1199412177

399 553 1442 2820 4402 4823 5011 5493 7070 8340 8500 9054 11201 11387

201 607 1428 2354 5358 5524 6617 6785 7708 10220 11970 12268 12339 12537

36 992 1930 4525 5837 6283 6887 7284 7489 7550 10329 11202 11399 12795

589 1564 1747 2960 3833 4502 7491 7746 8196 9567 9574 10187 10591 12947

804 1177 1414 3765 4745 7594 9126 9230 9251 10299 10336 11563 1184412209

2774 2830 3918 4148 4963 5356 7125 7645 7868 8137 9119 9189 9206 12363

59 448 947 3622 5139 8115 9364 9548 9609 9750 10212 10937 11044 12668

715 1352 4538 5277 5729 6210 6418 6938 7090 7109 7386 9012 10737 11893

1583 2059 3398 3619 4277 6896 7484 7525 8284 9318 9817 10227 11636 12204

53 549 3010 5441 6090 9175 9336 9358 9839 10117 11307 11467 11507 12902

861 1054 1177 1201 1383 2538 4563 6451 6800 10540 11222 11757 1224012732

330 1450 1798 2301 2652 3038 3187 3277 4324 4610 9395 10240 10796 11100

316 751 1226 1746 2124 2505 3497 3833 3891 7551 8696 9763 11978 12661

2677 2888 2904 3923 4804 5105 6855 7222 7893 7907 9674 10274 12683 12702

173 3397 3520 5131 5560 6666 6783 6893 7742 7842 9364 9442 12287

421 943 1893 1920 3273 4052 5758 5787 7043 11051 12141 12209 12500

679 792 2543 3243 3385 3576 4190 7501 8233 8302 9212 9522 12286

911 3651 4023 4462 4650 5336 5762 6506 8050 8381 9636 9724 12486

1373 1728 1911 4101 4913 5003 6859 7137 8035 9056 9378 9937 10184

515 2357 2779 2797 3163 3845 3976 6969 7704 9104 10102 11507 12700

270 1744 1804 3432 3782 4643 5946 6279 6549 7064 7393 11659 12002

261 1517 2269 3554 4762 5103 5460 6429 6464 8962 9651 10927 12268

782 1217 1395 2383 5754 6060 6540 7109 7286 7438 7846 9488 10119

2070 2247 2589 2644 3270 3875 4901 6475 8953 10090 10629 12496 12547

863 1190 1609 2971 3564 4148 5123 5262 6301 7797 7804 9517 11408

449 488 865 3549 3939 4410 4500 5700 7120 8778 9223 11660 12021

1107 1408 1883 2752 3818 4714 5979 6485 7314 7821 11290 11472 12325

713 2492 2507 2641 3576 4711 5021 5831 7334 8362 9094 9690 10778

1487 2344 5035 5336 5727 6495 9009 9345 11090 11261 11314 12383 12944

1038 1463 1472 2944 3202 5742 5793 6972 7853 8919 9808 10549 12619

134 957 2018 2140 2629 3884 5821 7319 8676 10305 10670 12031 12588

5294 9842

4396 6648

2863 5308

10467 11711

3412 6909

450 3919

5639 9801

298 4323

397 10223

4424 9051

2038 2376

5889 11321 12500

3590 4081 12684

3485 4016 9826

6 2869 8310

5983 9818 10877

2282 9346 11477

4931 6135 10473

300 2901 9937

3185 5215 7479

472 5845 5915

2476 7687 11934

3279 8782 11527

4350 7138 7144

7454 7818 8253

1391 8717 8844

1940 4736 10556

5471 7344 8089

9157 10640 11919

1343 5402 12724

2581 4118 8142

5165 9328 11386

7222 7262 12955

6711 11224 11737

401 3195 11940

6114 6969 8208

1402 7917 9738

965 7700 10139

3428 5767 12000

3501 7052 8803

1447 10504 10961

1870 1914 7762

613 2063 10520

3561 6480 10466

3389 3887 10110

995 1104 1640

1492 4122 7572

3243 9765 12415

7297 11200 11533

1959 10325 11306

1675 5313 11475

3621 4658 12790

4208 5650 8687

2467 7691 11886

3039 3190 5017

866 1375 2272

4374 6453 8228

2763 4668 4749

640 1346 6924

6588 6983 10075

3389 9260 12508

89 5799 997

1290 2978 8038

317 742 8017

5378 5618 6586

3369 3827 4536

1000 10436 12288

3762 11384 11897

848 874 8968

1001 4751 12066

1788 6685 12397

5721 8247 9005

649 7547 9837

2263 9415 10862

3954 4111 7767

952 4393 5523

8132 8580 10906

4191 9677 12585

1071 10601 11106

3069 6943 11015

5555 8088 9537

85 2810 3100

1249 8418 8684

2743 12099 12686

2908 3691 9890

10172 10409 11615

8358 10584 12082

4902 6310 8368

4976 10047 11299

7325 8228 11092

4942 6974 8533

5782 9780 9869

15 4728 10395

369 1900 11517

3796 7434 9085

2473 9813 12636

1472 3557 6607

174 3715 4811

6263 6694 8114

4538 6635 9101

3199 8348 10057

6176 7498 7937

1837 3382 5688

8897 11342 11680

455 6465 7428

1900 3666 8968

3481 6308 10199

159 2654 12150

5602 6695 12897

3309 4899 6415

6 99 7615

1722 6386 11112

5090 8873 10718

4164 6731 12121

367 846 7678

222 6050 12711

3154 7149 7557

1556 4667 7990

2536 9712 9932

4104 7040 9983

6365 11604 12457

3393 10323 10743

724 2237 5455

108 1705 6151.

In the first transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 3/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the L0PC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis. In the group-wise interleaving, the (i +1)th bit group froma head of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

154, 106, 99, 177, 191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83,103, 169, 156, 130, 186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145,162, 127, 152, 174, 134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150,46, 153, 33, 61, 142, 102, 171, 168, 78, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128,101, 42, 2, 14, 38, 10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94, 23,34, 59, 35, 129, 12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167, 36,79, 138, 4, 95, 148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107, 137,88, 44, 116, 69, 7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24, 58, 70,11, 56, 143, 111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 52, 9, 71, 48, 26, 117, 50,149, 140, 20, 57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76, 1, 97,40, 53, 84, 166, 75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 187, 25,119, 41, 122, 16, 5, 93, 115, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179. Theparity check matrix initial value table defining the parity check matrixis as described above.

In the first reception device of the present technology, the sequence ofthe LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from the transmission device that implements the firsttransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

In the second transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 5/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the LDPC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis. In the group-wise interleaving, the (i+1)th bit group froma head of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

1, 182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189,56, 67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169,49, 73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33,21, 53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83,176, 159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165,59, 25, 161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23,12, 66, 70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160,34, 101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168,10, 107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136,55, 44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103,78, 109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75,18, 96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90. Theparity check matrix initial value table defining the parity check matrixis as described above.

In the second reception device of the present technology, the sequenceof the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from the transmission device that implements the secondtransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

In the third transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 7/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the LDPC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis. In the group-wise interleaving, the (i+1)th bit group froma head of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

35, 75, 166, 145, 143, 184, 62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187,144, 91, 78, 44, 39, 109, 185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94,130, 27, 171, 19, 51, 165, 148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49,120, 152, 161, 162, 147, 71, 137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92,90, 60, 99, 79, 59, 108, 115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86,117, 191, 101, 52, 15, 80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73,64, 16, 18, 146, 70, 181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113,97, 2, 6, 55, 17, 65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125,20, 106, 186, 182, 188, 114, 1, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22,190, 58, 23, 155, 138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118,121, 129, 168, 13, 128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76,50, 154, 139, 66, 85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122. The paritycheck matrix initial value table defining the parity check matrix is asdescribed above.

In the third reception device of the present technology, the sequence ofthe LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from the transmission device that implements the thirdtransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

In the fourth transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 9/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the LDPC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation gm) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis. In the group-wise interleaving, the (i+1)th bit group froma head of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79, 59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32,54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34, 161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178,179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29, 67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 175, 16,71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2, 177, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61,117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162, 23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159,133, 8, 152, 103, 102, 151, 143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62,20, 83, 7, 187, 153, 64, 37, 144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122,127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189, 124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77,82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63, 148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70,182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136, 169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106,35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50, 72, 85, 40, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138,43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, 1, 56, 107, 92, 147, 47, 30, 73, 167. Theparity check matrix initial value table defining the parity check matrixis as described above.

In the fourth reception device of the present technology, the sequenceof the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from the transmission device that implements the fourthtransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

In the fifth transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 11/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the LDPC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis. In the group-wise interleaving, the (i+1)th bit group froma head of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 2, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70,124, 128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 83, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179,123, 183, 26, 188, 15, 163, 1, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180,185, 190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176,147, 189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135,71, 181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10,49, 80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19,27, 41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84,109, 104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129,159, 55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 143, 11, 93,62, 177, 61, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54,89, 99, 120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144. Theparity check matrix initial value table defining the parity check matrixis as described above.

In the fifth reception device of the present technology, the sequence ofthe LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from. the transmission device that implements the fifthtransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

In the sixth transmission method of the present technology, LDPC codingis performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehaving the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 13/16,and group-wise interleaving to interleave the LDPC code in units of bitgroups of 360 bits is performed. Then, the LDPC code is mapped to anyone of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis in the group-wise interleaving, the (i+1)th bit group from ahead of the LDPC code is set as the bit group i, and the sequence of bitgroups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into thesequence of bit groups

140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27, 109, 121, 153, 58, 181, 143, 164, 103,115, 91, 66, 60, 189, 101, 4, 14, 102, 45, 124, 104, 159, 130, 133, 135,77, 25, 59, 180, 141, 144, 62, 114, 182, 134, 148, 11, 20, 125, 83, 162,75, 126, 67, 9, 178, 171, 152, 166, 69, 174, 15, 80, 168, 131, 95, 56,48, 63, 82, 147, 51, 108, 52, 30, 139, 22, 37, 173, 112, 191, 98, 116,149, 167, 142, 29, 154, 92, 94, 71, 117, 79, 122, 129, 24, 81, 105, 97,137, 128, 1, 113, 170, 119, 7, 158, 76, 19, 183, 68, 31, 50, 118, 33,72, 55, 65, 146, 165, 111, 145, 28, 21, 177, 160, 32, 61, 70, 106, 156,78, 132, 88, 184, 35, 5, 53, 138, 47, 100, 10, 42, 36, 175, 93, 120,190, 16, 123, 87, 54, 186, 18, 57, 84, 99, 12, 163, 157, 188, 64, 38,26, 2, 136, 40, 169, 90, 107, 46, 172, 49, 6, 39, 44, 150, 85, 0, 17,127, 155, 110, 34, 96, 74, 86, 187, 89, 151, 43, 179, 161, 73, 23, 3.The parity check matrix initial value table defining the parity checkmatrix is as described above.

In the sixth reception device of the present technology, the sequence ofthe LDPC code after group-wise interleaving obtained from the datatransmitted from the transmission device that implements the sixthtransmission method is returned to the original sequence.

Note that the reception device may be an independent device or may beinternal blocks configuring one device.

Effects of the Invention

According to the present technology, favorable communication quality canbe secured in data transmission using an LDPC code.

Note that the effects described here are not necessarily limited, andany of effects described in the present disclosure may be exerted.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a decoding procedure of an LDPC code.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrix ofan LDPC code.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Tanner graph of aparity check matrix.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a variable node.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a check node.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of anembodiment of a transmission system to which the present technology isapplied.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of atransmission device 11.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a bitinterleaver 116.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity matrix.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode defined in DVB-T.2 standard.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode defined in the DVB -T.2 standard.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Tanner graph fordecoding of an LDPC code.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity matrix H_(T)having a step structure and a Tanner graph corresponding to the paritymatrix H_(T).

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity matrix H_(T) ofa parity check matrix H corresponding to an LDPC code after parityinterleaving.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart for describing an example of processing performedby the bit interleaver 116 and a mapper 117.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of anLDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for describing an example of processing of theLDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table with a coding rate of 1/4 and a code length of16200.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a method of obtaining a parity checkmatrix H from a parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 23 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table.

FIG. 24 is a diagram for describing an A matrix generated from a paritycheck matrix initial value table.

FIG. 25 is a diagram for describing parity interleaving of a B matrix.

FIG. 26 is a diagram for describing a C matrix generated from a paritycheck matrix initial value table.

FIG. 27 is a diagram for describing parity interleaving of a D matrix.

FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a parity check matrix in which columnpermutation is performed as parity deinterleaving to restore parityinterleaving for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating a transformed parity check matrixobtained by performing row permutation for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=2/16.

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=3/16.

FIG. 32 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=3/16.

FIG. 33 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=4/16.

FIG. 34 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=5/16.

FIG. 35 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=5/16.

FIG. 36 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=6/16.

FIG. 37 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=6/16.

FIG. 38 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=7/16.

FIG. 39 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=7/16.

FIG. 40 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=8/16.

FIG. 41 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type A code having N=69120 bits and r=8/16.

FIG. 42 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=7/16.

FIG. 43 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=7/16.

FIG. 44 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=7/16.

FIG. 45 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=7/16.

FIG. 46 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having 69120 bits and r=8/16.

FIG. 47 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=8/16.

FIG. 48 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=8/16.

FIG. 49 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=8/16.

FIG. 50 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=9/16.

FIG. 51 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=9/16.

FIG. 52 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having 69120 bits and r=9/16.

FIG. 53 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=9/16.

FIG. 51 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=9/16.

FIG. 55 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=9/16.

FIG. 56 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=10/16.

FIG. 57 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=10/16.

FIG. 58 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having 69120 bits and r=10/16.

FIG. 59 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=10/16.

FIG. 60 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=10/16.

FIG. 61 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=10/16.

FIG. 62 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=11/16.

FIG. 63 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=11/16.

FIG. 64 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=11/16.

FIG. 65 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=11/16.

FIG. 66 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=11/16.

FIG. 67 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=11/16.

FIG. 68 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=12/16.

FIG. 69 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=12/16.

FIG. 70 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=12/16.

FIG. 71 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=12/16.

FIG. 72 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=12/16.

FIG. 73 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=12/16.

FIG. 74 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=13/16.

FIG. 75 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=13/16.

FIG. 76 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=13/16.

FIG. 77 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=13/16.

FIG. 78 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=13/16.

FIG. 79 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=13/16.

FIG. 80 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=14/16.

FIG. 81 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=14/16.

FIG. 82 is a diagram illustrating the example of a parity check matrixinitial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits and r=14/16.

FIG. 83 is a diagram illustrating another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=14/16.

FIG. 84 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=14/16.

FIG. 85 is a diagram illustrating the another example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of a type B code having N=69120 bits andr=14/16.

FIG. 86 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Tanner graph of adegree sequence ensemble with a column weight of 3 and a row weight of6.

FIG. 87 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Tanner graph of amulti-edge type ensemble.

FIG. 88 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix by a type Amethod.

FIG. 89 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix by a type Amethod.

FIG. 90 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix by a type Bmethod.

FIG. 91 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix by a type Bmethod.

FIG. 92 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates of a signalpoint of UC in a case where a modulation method is QPSK.

FIG. 93 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates of a signalpoint of 2D NUC in a case where a modulation method is 16 QAM.

FIG. 94 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates of a signalpoint of 1D NUC in a case where a modulation method is 1024 QAM.

FIG. 95 is a diagram illustrating relationship between a symbol y of1024 QAM and each of real part. Re (z_(s)) and imaginary part Im (z_(s))of a complex number as coordinates of 1D NUC signal point z_(s)corresponding to the symbol y.

FIG. 96 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of QPSK-UC.

FIG. 97 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of QPSK-UC.

FIG. 98 is a diagram illustrating arm example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 16 QAM-UC.

FIG. 99 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 16 QAM-UC.

FIG. 100 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 64 QAM-UC.

FIG. 101 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 64 QAM-UC.

FIG. 102 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 256 QAM-UC.

FIG. 103 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 256 QAM-UC.

FIG. 104 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 1024 QAM-UC.

FIG. 105 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 1024 QAM-UC.

FIG. 106 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 4096 QAM-UC.

FIG. 107 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates z_(q) of asignal point of 4096 QAM-UC.

FIG. 108 is a diagram for describing block interleaving performed by ablock interleaver 25.

FIG. 109 is a diagram for describing block interleaving performed by theblock interleaver 25.

FIG. 110 is a diagram for describing grow wise interleaving performed bya group-wise interleaver 24.

FIG. 111 is a diagram illustrating a first example of a GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 112 is a diagram illustrating a second example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 113 is a diagram illustrating a third example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 114 is a diagram illustrating a fourth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 115 is a diagram illustrating a fifth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 116 is a diagram illustrating a sixth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 117 is a diagram illustrating a seventh example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 118 is a diagram illustrating an eighth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 119 is a diagram illustrating a ninth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 120 is a diagram illustrating a tenth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 121 is a diagram illustrating an eleventh example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 122 is a diagram illustrating a twelfth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 123 is a diagram illustrating a thirteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 124 is a diagram illustrating a fourteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 125 is a diagram illustrating a fifteenth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 126 is a diagram illustrating a sixteenth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 127 is a diagram illustrating a seventeenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 128 is a diagram illustrating an eighteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 129 is a diagram illustrating a nineteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 130 is a diagram illustrating twentieth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 131 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-first example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 132 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-second example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 133 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 134 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 135 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-fifth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 136 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-sixth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 137 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-seventh example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 138 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-eighth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 139 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-ninth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 140 is a diagram illustrating thirtieth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 141 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-first example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 142 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-second example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 143 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 144 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 145 is a figure illustrating a thirty-fifth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 146 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-sixth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 147 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-seventh example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 148 a diagram illustrating a thirty-eighth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 149 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-ninth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 150 is a diagram illustrating a fortieth. example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 151 is a diagram illustrating a forty-first example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 152 is a diagram illustrating a forty-second example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 153 is a diagram illustrating a forty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 154 is a diagram illustrating a forty-fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 155 is a diagram illustrating a forty-fifth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

FIG. 156 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of areception device 12.

FIG. 157 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of abit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 158 is a flowchart for describing an example of processingperformed by a demapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165, and an LDPCdecoder 166.

FIG. 159 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixof an LDPC code.

FIG. 160 is a diagram illustrating an example of a matrix (transformedparity check matrix) obtained by performing row permutation and columnpermutation for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 161 is a diagram illustrating an example of a transformed paritycheck matrix divided into 5×5 units.

FIG. 162 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of adecoding device that collectively performs P node operations.

FIG. 163 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of theLDPC decoder 166.

FIG. 164 is a diagram for describing block deinterleaving performed by ablock deinterleaver 54.

FIG. 165 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration exampleof the bit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 166 is a block diagram illustrating a first configuration exampleof a reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

FIG. 167 is a block diagram illustrating a second configuration exampleof the reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

FIG. 168 is a block diagram illustrating a third configuration exampleof the reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

FIG. 169 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of anembodiment of a computer to which the present technology is applied.

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Hereinafter, embodiments of the present technology will be described.Before the description of embodiments, an LDPC code will be described.

<LDPC Code>

Note that the LDPC code is a linear code and is not necessarily binary.However, description will be given on the assumption that the LDPC codeis binary.

An LDPC code is most characterized in that a parity check matrixdefining the LDPC code is sparse. Here, a sparse matrix is a matrix inwhich the number of “1”s of matrix elements is very small (a matrix inwhich most elements are 0).

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a parity check matrix H of the LDPCcode.

In the parity check matrix H in FIG. 1, a weight. (column weight)(number of “1”s) (weight) of each column is “3”, and a weight (rowweight) of each row is “6”.

In coding (LDPC coding) with an LDPC code, for example, a codeword (LDPCcode) is generated by generating a generator matrix G on the basis ofthe parity check matrix H and multiplying binary information bits by thegenerator matrix G.

Specifically, a coding device for performing the LDPC coding firstcalculates the generator matrix G that holds an equation GH^(T)=0 with atransposed matrix H^(T) of the parity check matrix H. Here, in a casewhere the generator matrix G is a K×N matrix, the coding devicemultiplies the generator matrix G by a bit string (vector u) ofinformation bits including K bits and generates a codeword c (=uG)including N bits. The codeword (LDPC code) generated by the codingdevice is received at a reception side via a predetermined communicationpath.

Decoding of the LDPC code can be performed by an algorithm calledprobabilistic decoding proposed by Gallager, which is a message passingalgorithm according to belief propagation on a so-called Tanner graphincluding a variable node (also called message node) and a check node.Here, as appropriate, the variable node and the check node arehereinafter also simply referred to as nodes.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of decoding an LDPC code.

Note that, hereinafter, a real value (received LLR) expressing “0”likeliness of a value of an i-th code bit of the LDPC code (1 codeword)received on the reception side using a log likelihood ratio is alsoreferred to as a received value u_(0i) as appropriate. Furthermore, amessage output from the check node is u_(j) and a message output fromthe variable node is v_(i).

First, in decoding the LDPC code, as illustrated in FIG. 2, in step S11,the LDPC code is received, a message (check node message) u_(j) isinitialized to “0”, a variable k that is an integer as a counter forrepeated processing is initialized to “0”, and the processing proceedsto step S12. In step S12, a message (variable node message) v_(i) isobtained by performing an operation (variable node operation)illustrated in the expression (1) on the basis of the received valueu_(0i) obtained by receiving the LDPC code, and moreover, a messageu_(j) is obtained by performing an operation (check node operation)illustrated in the expression (2) on the basis of the message v_(i).

$\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {{Expression}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack & \; \\{v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v} - 1}\; u_{j}}}} & (1) \\\left\lbrack {{Expression}\mspace{14mu} 2} \right\rbrack & \; \\{{\tanh \left( \frac{u_{j}}{2} \right)} = {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$

Here, d_(v) and d_(c) in the expressions (1) and (2) are arbitrarilyselectable parameters respectively indicating the numbers of “1”s in avertical direction (column) and a cross direction (row) of the paritycheck matrix H. For example, in the case of the LDPC code ((3, 6) LDPCcode) for the parity check matrix H with the column weight of 3 and therow weight of 6 as illustrated in FIG. 1, d_(v)=3 and d_(c)=6.

Note that, in each of the variable node operation in the expression (1)and the check node operation in (2), a message input from an edge (aline connecting the variable node and the check node) to output amessage is not an object for the operation. Therefore, an operationrange is 1 to d_(v)−1 or 1 to d_(c)−1. Furthermore, the check nodeoperation in the expression is performed by, in practice, creating atable of a function R (v₁, v₂) illustrated in the expression (3) definedby one output for two inputs v₁ and v₂, in advance, and using the tablecontinuously (recursively) as illustrated in the expression (4).

[Expression 3]

x=2 tan h ⁻¹[tan h(v ₁/2)tan h(v ₂/2)]=R(v ₁ , v ₂)   (3)

[Expression 4]

u _(j) =R(v ₁ , R(v ₂ , R(v ₃ , . . . R(v _(d) ₀ ⁻² , v _(d) ₀ ⁻¹))))  (4)

In step S12, the variable k is further incremented by “1”, and theprocessing proceeds to step S13. In step S13, whether or not thevariable k is larger than a predetermined number of iterative decodingsC is determined. In a case where the variable k is determined not to belarger than C in step S13, the processing returns to step S12 andhereinafter similar processing is repeated.

Furthermore, in a case where the variable k is determined to be largerthan C in step S13, the processing proceeds to step S14, the operationillustrated in the expression is performed to obtain the message v_(i)as a decoding result to be finally output and the message v_(i) isoutput, and the decoding processing for the LDPC code is terminated.

$\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {{Expression}\mspace{14mu} 5} \right\rbrack & \; \\{v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v}}\; u_{j}}}} & (5)\end{matrix}$

Here, the operation in the expression (5) is performed using messagesu_(j) from all the edges connected to the variable node unlike thevariable node operation in the expression (1).

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the parity check matrix Hof a (3, 6) LDPC code (a coding rate of 1/2 and a code length of 12).

In the parity check matrix H in FIG. 3, as in FIG. 1, the column weightis 3 and the row weight is 6.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a Tanner graph of the parity checkmatrix H in FIG. 3.

Here, in FIG. 4, the check node is represented by plus “+”, and thevariable node is represented by equal “=”. The check node and variablenode correspond to a row and a column of the parity check matrix H,respectively. A connection between the check node and the variable nodeis an edge and corresponds to “1” of an element of the parity checkmatrix.

In other words, in a case where the element of the j-th row and the i-thcolumn of the parity check matrix is 1, the i-th variable node from thetop (“=” node) and the j-th check node from the top (“+” node) areconnected by an edge in FIG. 4. The edge indicates that a code bitcorresponding to the variable node has a constraint corresponding to thecheck node.

In a sum product algorithm that is a decoding method of an LDPC code,the variable node operation and the check node operation are repeatedlyperformed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the variable node operation performedin the variable node.

In the variable node, the message v_(i) corresponding to the edge to becalculated is obtained by the variable node operation in the expression(1) using messages u₁ and u₂ and the received value u_(0i) from theremaining edges connected to the variable node. Messages correspondingto other edges are similarly obtained.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the check node operation performed inthe check node.

Here, the check node operation in the expression (2) can be rewritten tothe expression (6), using a relationship of an expression a×b=exp{ln(|a|)÷in(|b|)}×sign (a)×sign (b). Note that sign (x) is 1 when x≥0and −1 when x<0.

$\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {{Expression}\mspace{14mu} 6} \right\rbrack & \; \\\begin{matrix}{u_{j} = {2{\tanh^{- 1}\left( {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}}} \\{= {2{\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{{\ln\left( {{\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right\}} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{{sign}\left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}}} \right\rbrack} \right.}}} \\{= {2{\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {- \left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{- {\ln \left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right)} \right\}} \right\rbrack} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}}\end{matrix} & (6)\end{matrix}$

When the function φ(x) is defined as an expression φ(x)=ln(tan h(x/2))when x>0, an expression φ⁻¹(x)=2 tan h⁻¹(e^(−x)) holds, and thus theexpression (6) can be deformed into the expression (7).

$\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {{Expression}\mspace{14mu} 7} \right\rbrack & \; \\{u_{j} = {{\varphi^{- 1}\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\varphi \left( {v_{i}} \right)}} \right)} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

In the check node, the check node operation in the expression (2) isperformed according to the expression (7).

In other words, in the check node, the message u_(j) corresponding tothe edge to be calculated is obtained by the check node operation in theexpression (7) using messages v₁, v₂, v₃, v₄, and v₅ from the remainingedges connected to the check node, as illustrated in FIG. 6. Messagescorresponding to other edges are similarly obtained.

Note that the function p(x) in the expression (7) can be expressed bythe expression φ(x)=ln((e^(x)+1)/(e^(x)−1)), and φ(x)=φ⁻¹(x) holds whenx>0. When the functions φ(x) and φ⁻¹(x) are implemented in hardware, thefunctions may be implemented using look up tables (LUTs), and the LUTsare the same.

<Configuration Example of Transmission System to which PresentTechnology is Applied>

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of anembodiment of a transmission system (a system is a group of a pluralityof logically gathered devices, and whether or not the devices ofconfigurations are in the same casing is irrelevant) to which thepresent technology is applied.

The transmission system in FIG. 7 is configured by a transmission device11 and a reception device 12.

The transmission device 11 performs transmission (broadcasting) of, forexample, a television broadcast program or the like In other words, thetransmission device 11 encodes target data to be transmitted, such asimage data and audio data as a program, into an LDPC code, and transmitsthe LDPC code via a communication path 13 such as a satellite line, aground wave, or a cable (wired line), for example.

The reception device 12 receives the LDPC code transmitted from thetransmission device 11 via the communication path 13, decodes the LDPCcode to the target data, and outputs the data.

Here, it is known that the LDPC code used in the transmission system inFIG. 7 exhibits extremely high capability in an additive white Gaussiannoise (AWGN) communication path.

Meanwhile, in the communication path 13, burst errors and erasures mayoccur. For example, in particular, in a case where the communicationpath 13 is a ground wave, power of a certain symbol becomes zero(erasure) in some cases according to a delay of an echo (a path otherthan a main path) in a multipath environment where a desired toundesired ratio (D/U) is 0 dB (power of undesired=echo is equal to powerof desired=main path) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) system.

Also, power of the entire symbols of OFDM at a specific time may becomezero (erasure) due to a Doppler frequency in the case where D/L is 0 dBin a flutter (a communication path in which a delay is 0 and to which anecho with Doppler frequency is added).

Moreover, a burst error may occur due to a wiring condition from areceiving unit (not illustrated) on the reception device 12 side such asan antenna that receives a signal from the transmission device 11 to thereception device 12, and power supply instability of the receptiondevice 12.

Meanwhile, in decoding the LDPC code, the variable node operation in theexpression (1) with addition of (the received value u_(0i) of) the codebit of the LDPC code is performed, as illustrated in FIG. 5, at a columnof the parity check matrix H and thus at a variable node correspondingto the code bit of the LDPC code. Therefore, if an error occurs in thecode bit used in the variable node operation, the accuracy of anobtained message decreases.

Then, in the decoding of the LDPC code, the check node calculation ofthe expression (7) is performed using a message obtained by the variablenode connected to the check node in the check node, so if the number ofcheck nodes at which (the code bits of the LDPC code corresponding to) aplurality of connected variable nodes simultaneously causes errors(including erasures) increases, the decoding performance is degraded.

In other words, for example, if two or more of the variable nodesconnected to the check node become erasures at the same time, the checknode returns a message that the probability of the value of 0 and theprobability of the value of 1 are equal to all the variable nodes. Inthis case, the check node returning the equal probability message willnot contribute to one decoding processing (one set of variable nodeoperation and check node operation). As a result, a large number ofrepetitions of the decoding processing are required. As result, decodingperformance is degraded, and the power consumption of the receptiondevice 12 that decodes the LDPC code is increased.

Therefore, in the transmission system in FIG. 7, improvement ofresistance to burst errors and erasure is possible while maintaining theperformance in the AWGN communication path (AWGN channel).

<Configuration Example of Transmission Device 11>

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of thetransmission device 11 in FIG. 7.

In the transmission device 11, one or more input streams as the targetdata are supplied to a mode adaptation/multiplexer 111.

The mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 performs processing such as modeselection and multiplexing of the one or more input streams suppliedthereto as necessary, and supplies resulting data to a padder 112.

The padder 112 performs necessary zero padding (insertion of null) tothe data from the mode adaptation/multiplexer 111, and suppliesresulting data to a base band (BB) scrambler 113.

The as scrambler 113 applies BE scramble to the data from the padder112, and supplies resulting data to a BCH encoder 114.

The BCH encoder 114 BCH encodes the data from the BB scrambler 113, andsupplies resulting data to an LDPC encoder 115 as LDPC target data to besubjected to LDPC encoding.

The LDPC encoder 115 performs, for the LDPC target data from the BCHencoder 114, LDPC coding according to a parity check matrix in which aparity matrix that is a portion corresponding to parity bits of the LDPCcode has a step (dual diagonal) structure or the like, for example, andoutputs the LDPC code having the LDPC target data as information bits

In other words, the LDPC encoder 115 performs LDPC coding for coding theLDPC target data to an LDPC code (corresponding to the parity checkmatrix) defined in a predetermined standard such as DVB-S.2, DVB-C.2, orATSC 3.0, or another LDPC code, for example, and outputs a resultingLDPC code.

Here, the LDPC code defined in the DVB-S.2 or ATSC 3.0 standard and theLDPC code to be adopted in ATSC 3.0 is an irregular repeat accumulate(IRA) code, and (a part or all of) a parity matrix in the parity checkmatrix of the LDPC code has a step structure. The parity matrix and thestep structure will be described below. Furthermore, the IRA code isdescribed in, for example, “Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes,” H. Jin,A. Khandekar, and R. J. McEliece, in Proceedings of 2nd InternationalSymposium on Turbo codes and Related Topics, pp. 1-8, September 2000.

The LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 is supplied to a bitinterleaver 116.

The bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleaving described below forthe LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies the LDPC codeafter the bit interleaving to a mapper (Mapper) 117.

The mapper 117 maps the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 intosignal points representing one symbol of quadrature modulation in unitsof one or more code bits (symbol units) of the LDPC code and performsquadrature modulation (multiple value modulation).

In other words, the mapper 117 maps the LDPC code from the bitinterleaver 116 into signal points determined by a modulation method forperforming the quadrature modulation of the LDPC code, on aconstellation that is an IQ plane defined with an I axis representing anI component in phase with a carrier and a Q axis representing a Qcomponent orthogonal to the carrier, and performs the quadraturemodulation.

In a case where the number of constellation signal points used in themodulation method of the quadrature modulation performed by the mapper117 is 2^(m), the mapper 117 maps the LDPC code from the bit interleaver116 into signal points representing symbols, of 2^(m) signal points insymbol units, where m-bit code bits of the LDPC code is a symbol (onesymbol).

Here, examples of the modulation method of the quadrature modulationperformed by the mapper 117 include the modulation method defined in thestandard such as DVB-S.2 or ATSC 3.0, and other modulation methods suchas binary phase shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase shift keying(QPSK), phase-shift keying (8 PSK), amplitude phase-shift keying (16APSK), 32 APSK, quadrature amplitude modulation (16 QAM), 16 QAM, 64QAM, 256 QAM, 1024 QAM, 4096 QAM, and pulse amplitude modulation (4PAM), for example. Which modulation method of the quadrature modulationis used in the mapper 117 is set in advance according to an operation ofan operator of the transmission device 11, or the like, for example.

Data obtained by the processing in the mapper 117 (the mapping result ofmapping the symbols to the signal points) is supplied to a timeinterleaver 118.

The time interleaver 118 performs time interleaving (interleaving in atime direction) in symbol units for the data from the mapper 117, andsupplies resulting data to a single input single output/multiple inputsingle output encoder (SISO/MISO encoder) 119.

The SISO/MISO encoder 119 applies space-time coding to the data from thetime interleaver 118, and supplies the data to a frequency interleaver120.

The frequency interleaver 120 performs, for the data from the SISO/MISOencoder 119, frequency interleaving (interleaving in a frequencydirection) in symbol units, and supplies the data to a framebuilder/resource allocation unit 131.

Meanwhile, control data (signaling) for transmission control such asbase band (BB) signaling (BB header) is supplied to a BCH encoder 121,for example.

The BCH encoder 121 performs BCH encoding for the control data suppliedthereto similarly to the BCH encoder 114, and supplies resulting data toan LDPC encoder 122.

The LDPC encoder 122 performs LDPC coding for the data from the BCHencoder 121 as the LDPC target data, similarly to the LDPC encoder 115,and supplies a resulting LDPC code to a mapper 123.

The mapper 123 maps the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 122 into signalpoints representing one symbol of quadrature modulation in units of oneor more code bits (symbol units) of the LDPC, code and performsquadrature modulation, similarly to the mapper 117, and suppliesresulting data to a frequency interleaver 124.

The frequency interleaver 124 performs frequency interleaving in symbolunits for the data from the mapper 123, similarly to the frequencyinterleaver 120, and supplies resulting data to the framebuilder/resource allocation unit 131.

The frame builder/resource allocation unit 131 inserts pilot symbolsinto necessary positions of the data (symbols) from the frequencyinterleavers 120 and 124, and configures a frame by a predeterminednumber of symbols (for example, a physical layer (FL) frame, a T2 frame,a C2 frame, or the like) from resulting data (symbols), and supplies theframe to an OFDM generation unit 132.

The OFDM generation unit 132 generates an OFDM signal corresponding tothe frame from the frame builder/resource allocation unit 131, andtransmits the OFDM signal via the communication path 13 (FIG. 7).

Note that the transmission device 11 can be configured without includingpart of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 8, such as the time interleaver118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120, and thefrequency interleaver 124.

<Configuration Example of Bit Interleaver 116>

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of thebit interleaver 116.

The bit interleaver 116 has a function to interleave data, and isconfigured by a parity interleaver 23, a group-wise interleaver 24, anda block interleaver 25.

The parity interleaver 23 performs parity interleaving to interleave theparity bits of the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115 to positions ofother parity bits, and supplies the LDPC code after the parityinterleaving to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs group-wise interleaving for theLDPC code from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the LDPC codeafter the group-wise interleaving to the block interleaver 25.

Here, in the group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code from the parityinterleaver 23 is interleaved in units of bit groups, where one sectionof 360 bits is set as a bit group, the one section of 360 bits beingobtained by dividing the LDPC code of one code into units of 360 bits,the unit being equal to a unit size P described below, from the head ofthe LDPC code, and taking one of the sections as the one section.

In a case of performing the group-wise interleaving, the error rate canbe improved as compared with a case of not performing the group-wiseinterleaving. As a result, favorable communication quality can besecured in data transmission.

The block interleaver 25 performs block interleaving for demultiplexingthe LDPC code from the group-wise interleaver 24 to symbolize the LDPCcode of one code into m-bit symbols, the m bits being the unit ofmapping, and supplies the symbols to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Here, in the block interleaving, for example, the LDPC code from thegroup-wise interleaver 24 is written in a column (vertical) directionand is read in a row (cross) direction with respect to a storage area inwhich columns as storage areas each storing a predetermined bit lengthin the column direction are arranged in the row direction by the numberof bit length m of symbols, whereby the LDPC code is symbolized into them-bit symbols.

<Parity Check Matrix of LDPC Code>

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of the parity check matrixH used for LDPC coding in the LDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 8.

The parity check matrix H has a low-density generation matrix (LDGM)structure and is expressed by an information matrix H_(A) of a portioncorresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix H_(T)corresponding to the parity bits, of the code bits of the LDPC code, asan expression H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] (elements of the information matrix H_(A)are elements on the left side and elements of the parity check matrixH_(T) are elements on the right side).

Here, the bit length of the information bits and the bit length of theparity bits, of the code bits of the LDPC code of one code (onecodeword), are respectively referred to as an information length K and aparity length M, and the bit length of the code bits of one (onecodeword) LDPC code is referred to as code length N (=K+M).

The information length K and the parity length M of an LDPC code of agiven code length N are determined by a coding rate. Furthermore, theparity check matrix H is a matrix of M×N in rows×columns (M-row N-columnmatrix). Then, the information matrix H_(A) is an M×K matrix, and theparity matrix H_(T) is an M×M matrix.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of the parity matrix H_(T)of the parity check matrix H used for LDPC coding in the LDPC encoder115 an FIG. 8.

As the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H used for LDPCcoding in the LDPC encoder 115, a parity matrix H_(T) similar to theparity check matrix H of the LDPC code defined in the standard such asDVB-T.2 can be adopted, for example.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC codedefined in the standard such as DVB-T.2 is a matrix having a stepstructure (lower bidiagonal matrix) in which elements of 1 are arrangedin a step-like manner, as illustrated in FIG. 11. The row weight of theparity matrix H_(T) is 1 in the 1st row and 2 in all the remaining rows.Furthermore, the column weight is 1 in the last one column and 2 in allthe remaining columns.

As described above, the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H havingthe parity matrix H_(T) in a step structure can be easily generatedusing the parity check matrix H.

In other words, the LDPC code (one codeword) is represented by a rowvector c, and a column vector obtained by transposing the row vector isrepresented as c^(T). Furthermore, a portion of the information bits, ofthe row vector c that is the LDPC code, is represented by a row vectorA, and a portion of the parity bits, of the row vector c, is representedby a row vector T.

In this case, the row vector c can be expressed by an expression c=[A|T](elements of the row vector A are elements on the left side and elementsof the row vector are elements on the right side) using the row vector Aas the information bits and the row vector T as the parity bits.

The parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as the LDPC codeneed to satisfy an expression Hc^(T)=0, and the row vector as the paritybits constituting the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the expressionHc^(T)=0 can be sequentially obtained (in order) by sequentially settingthe element of each row to 0 from the element in the 1st row of thecolumn vector Hc^(T) in the expression. Hc^(T)=0 in a case where theparity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] has thestep structure illustrated in FIG. 11.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theLDPC code defined in the standard such as DVB-T.2.

The column weight of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code definedin the standard such as DVB-T.2 is X in KX columns from the 1st column,3 in following K3 columns, and 2 in following M−1 columns, and 1 in thelast one column.

Here, KX+K3+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating the number of columns KX, K3, and Nand the column weight X for each coding rate r of the LDPC code definedin the standard such as DVB-T.2.

In the standard such as DVB-T.2, LDPC codes having code lengths N of64800 bits and 16200 bits are defined.

Then, eleven coding rates (nominal rates) of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5,2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 are defined for the LDPC code with thecode length N of 64800 bits. Ten coding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2,3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined for the LDPC code with thecode length N of 16200 bits.

Here, the code length N of 64800 bits is also referred to as 64 k bitsand the code length N of 16200 bits is also referred to as 16 k bits.

In regard to the LDPC code, code bits corresponding to a column having alarger column weight of the parity check matrix H tend to have a lowererror rate.

In the parity check matrix H defined in the standard such as DVB-T.2illustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13, the column weight tends to be larger inthe columns on the head side (left side), and hence the code bits on thehead side are more resistant to errors and the late code bits are moresusceptible to errors in the LDPC code corresponding to the parity checkmatrix H.

<Parity Interleaving>

The parity interleaving by the parity interleaver 23 in FIG. 9 will bedescribed with reference to FIGS. 14 to 16.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of (a part of) a Tannergraph of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code.

As illustrated in FIG. 14, when two or more of (the code bitscorresponding to) the variable nodes connected to the check node becomeerrors such as erasures at the same time, for example, the check nodereturns a message that the probability of the value of 0 and theprobability of the value of 1 are equal to all the variable nodesconnected to the check node. Therefore, if a plurality of variable nodesconnected to the same check node simultaneously becomes erasures or thelike, the decoding performance will deteriorate.

By the way, the LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 8 isan IRA code, similarly to the LDPC code defined in the standard such asDVB-T.2, for example, and the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity checkmatrix H has a step structure, as illustrated in FIG. 11.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating examples of the parity matrix H_(T)having the step structure, as illustrated in FIG. 11, and the Tannergraph corresponding to the parity matrix H_(T).

A in FIG. 15 illustrates an example of the parity matrix H_(T) having astep structure, and B in FIG. 15 illustrate a Tanner graph correspondingto the parity matrix H_(T) in A in FIG. 15.

In the parity matrix H_(T) having a step structure, elements of 1 areadjacent (except the 1st row) in rows. Therefore, in the Tanner graph ofthe parity matrix H_(T), two adjacent variable nodes corresponding tocolumns of the two adjacent elements in which the values of the paritymatrix H_(T) are 1 are connected to the same check node.

Therefore, when the parity bits corresponding to the above two adjacentvariable nodes become errors at the same time due to burst errors,erasures, or the like, the check node connected to the two variablenodes corresponding to the two error parity bits (variable nodes seekinga message using the parity bits) returns the message that theprobability of the value of 0 and the probability of the value of 1 areequal to the variable nodes connected to the check node. Therefore, thedecoding performance is degraded. Then, when a burst length (the bitlength of the parity bits which becomes an error in succession) becomeslarge, the number of check nodes returning the message of equalprobability increases, and the decoding performance is further degraded.

Therefore, the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9) performs the parityinterleaving in which the parity bits of the LDPC code from the LDPCencoder 115 are interleaved at the positions of other parity bits inorder to prevent the degradation in the decoding performance describedabove.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating the parity matrix H_(T) of the paritycheck matrix H corresponding to the LDPC code after parity interleavingperformed by the parity interleaver 23 in FIG. 9.

Here, the information matrix H_(A) of the parity check matrix Hcorresponding to the LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115 has acyclic structure, similarly to the information matrix of the paritycheck matrix H corresponding to the LDPC code defined in the standardsuch as DVB-T.2.

The cyclic structure is a structure in which a certain column matches acyclically shifted another column, and includes, for example, astructure in which, for each P columns, the positions of 1 of rows ofthe P columns become cyclically shifted positions in the columndirection by a predetermined value such as a value proportional to avalue q obtained by dividing the first column of the P columns by theparity length M. Hereinafter, the P columns in the cyclic structure arereferred to as a unit size, as appropriate.

As the LDPC code defined in the standard such as DVB-T.2, there are twotypes of LDPC codes with the code lengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bitsas described in FIGS. 12 and 13. For either of the two types of LDPCcodes, the unit size P is defined to 360, which is one of divisors ofthe parity length. M except 1 and M.

Furthermore, the parity length M is a value other than a prime numberrepresented by an expression M=q×P=q×360, using a value q that variesdepending on the coding rate. Therefore, similarly to unit size P, thevalue q is also another one of the divisors of the parity length Mexcept 1 and M, and is obtained by dividing the parity length M by theunit size P (the product of P and q, which are the divisors of theparity length M, becomes the parity length M).

As described above, the parity interleaver 23 interleaves the(K+qx+y+1)th code bit, of the code bits of the N-bit LDPC code, to theposition of the (K+Py+x+1)th code bit, as the parity interleaving, withthe setting of the information length of K, an integer a from 0 to P,exclusive of P, and an integer y from. 0 to q, exclusive of q.

Since the (K+qx+y+1)th code bit and the (K+Py+x+1)th code bit are bothcode bits of (K+1)th or subsequent code bit and thus are parity bits,the position of the parity bit of the LDPC code is moved according tothe parity interleaving.

According to such parity interleaving, (the parity bits correspondingto) the variable nodes connected to the same check node are separated bythe unit size P, an other words, 360 bits. Therefore, in a case wherethe burst length is less than 360 bits, it is possible to avoid asituation where a plurality of variable nodes connected to the samecheck node becomes error at the same time, and as a result, theresistance to the burst errors can be improved.

Note that the LDPC code after the parity interleaving to interleave the(K+qx+y+1)th code bit to the position of the (K+Py+x+1)th code bitmatches the LDPC code of the parity check matrix (hereinafter alsoreferred to as transformed parity check matrix) that is obtained byperforming column permutation to permutate the (K+Qx+y+1)th column ofthe original parity check matrix H to the (K+Py+x+1)th column.

Furthermore, a pseudo cyclic structure having P columns (360 columns inFIG. 16) as units appears in the parity matrix of the transformed paritycheck matrix, as illustrated in FIG. 16.

Here, the pseudo cyclic structure means a structure having a cyclicstructure excluding a part.

A transformed parity check matrix obtained by applying columnpermutation corresponding to parity interleaving to a parity checkmatrix of an LDPC code defined in the standard such as DVB-T.2 lacks oneelement of 1 (the one element of 1 is the element of 0 here) in aportion (shift matrix to be described below) of 360 rows×360 columns inan upper right corner portion of the transformed parity check matrix,and thus has a so-called pseudo cyclic structure, rather than a(complete) cyclic structure, on that point.

A transformed parity check matrix with respect to the parity checkmatrix of the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 has a pseudocyclic structure, similarly to the transformed parity check matrix withrespect to the parity check matrix of the LDPC code defined in thestandard such as DVB-T.2, for example.

Note that the transformed parity check matrix in FIG. 16 is a matrixobtained by applying the column permutation corresponding to the parityinterleaving to the original parity check matrix H, and applyingpermutation for rows (row permutation) so that the transformed paritycheck matrix is configured in configuration matrices to be describebelow.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart for describing processing performed by the LDPCencoder 115, the bit interleaver 116, and a mapper 117 in FIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 115 waits for supply of the LDPC target data from theBCH encoder 114. In step S101, the LDPC encoder 115 encodes the LDPCtarget data into the LDPC code, and supplies the LDPC code to the bitinterleaver 116. The processing proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleaving for theLDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies a symbol obtained bythe bit interleaving to the mapper 117. The processing proceeds to stepS103.

In other words, in step S102, in the bit interleaver 116 (FIG. 9), theparity interleaver 23 performs parity interleaving for the LDPC codefrom the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies the LDPC code after the parityinterleaving to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs group-wise interleaving for theLDPC code from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the LDPC code tothe block interleaver 25.

The block interleaver 25 performs block interleaving for the LDPC codeafter the group-wise interleaving by the group-wise interleaver 24, andsupplies a resulting m-bit symbol to the mapper 117.

In step S103, the mapper 117 maps the symbol from the block interleaver25 to any of 2^(m) signal points determined by the modulation method ofthe quadrature modulation performed by the mapper 117 and performs thequadrature modulation, and supplies resulting data to the timeinterleaver 118.

As described above, by performing the parity interleaving and thegroup-wise interleaving, the error rate of a case where a plurality ofcode bits of the LDPC code is transmitted as one symbol can be improved.

Here, in FIG. 9, for convenience of description, the parity interleaver23 as a block for performing the parity interleaving and the group-wiseinterleaver 24 as a block for performing the group-wise interleaving areseparately configured. However, the parity interleaver 23 and thegroup-wise interleaver 24 can be integrally configured.

In other words, both the parity interleaving and the group-wiseinterleaving can be performed by writing and reading code bits withrespect to the memory, and can be represented by a matrix for convertingan address for writing code bits (write address) into an address forreading code bits (read address).

Therefore, by obtaining a matrix obtained by multiplying a matrixrepresenting the parity interleaving and a matrix representing thegroup-wise interleaving, the parity interleaving is performed byconverting code bits by these matrices, and further the group-wiseinterleaving is performed for the LDPC code after the parityinterleaving, whereby a result can be obtained.

Furthermore, the block interleaver 25 can also be integrally configuredin addition to the parity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver24.

In other words, the block interleaving performed by the blockinterleaver 25 can also be represented by the matrix converting thewrite address of the memory for storing the LDPC code into the readaddress.

Therefore, by obtaining a matrix obtained by multiplying the matrixrepresenting the parity interleaving, the matrix representing thegroup-wise interleaving, and a matrix representing the blockinterleaving, the parity interleaving, the group-wise interleaving, andthe block interleaving can be collectively performed by the matrices.

Note that one or the amount of the parity interleaving and thegroup-wise interleaving may not be performed.

<Configuration Example of LDPC Encoder 115>

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of theLDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 6.

Note that the LDPC encoder 122 in FIG. 8 is similarly configured.

As described in FIGS. 12 and 13, in the standard such as DVB-T.2, LDPCcodes having two types of code lengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bitsare defined.

Then, the eleven coding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5,5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 are defined for the LDPC code with the code length Nof 64800 bits, and the ten coding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3,3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined for the LDPC code with the codelength N of 16200 bits (FIGS. 12 and 13).

The LDPC encoder 115 can perform, for example, such coding (errorcorrection coding) by the LDPC codes with the coding rates of the codelengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bits according to the parity checkmatrix H prepared for each code length N and each coding rate.

Besides, the LDPC encoder 115 can perform LDPC coding according to theparity check matrix H of an LDPC code with an arbitrary code length Nand an arbitrary coding rate r.

The LDPC encoder 115 is configured by an coding processing unit 601 anda storage unit 602.

The coding processing unit 601 is configured by a coding rate settingunit 611, an initial value table reading unit 612, a parity check matrixgeneration unit 613, an information bit reading unit 614, a coded parityoperation unit 615, and a control unit 616. The coding processing unit601 performs LDPC coding for the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPCencoder 115, and supplies a resulting LDPC code to the bit interleaver116 (FIG. 8).

In other words, the coding rate setting unit 611 sets the code length Nand the coding rate r of the LDPC code, and in addition, specificinformation specifying the LDPC code, according to the operation of theoperator or the like, for example.

The initial value table reading unit 612 reads, from the storage unit602, a parity check matrix initial value table, which is describedbelow, representing the parity check matrix of the LDPC code specifiedby the specific information set by the coding rate setting unit 611.

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 generates the parity checkmatrix H on the basis of the parity check matrix initial value tableread by the initial value table reading unit 612, and stores the paritycheck matrix H in the storage unit 602. For example, the parity checkmatrix generation unit 613 arranges the element of 1 of the informationmatrix H_(A) corresponding to the information length K (=the code lengthN−the parity length M) according to the code Length N and the codingrate r set by the coding rate setting unit 611 with a period of every360 columns (unit size P) in the column direction to generate the paritycheck matrix H, and stores the parity check matrix H in the storage unit602.

The information bit reading unit 614 reads (extracts) the informationbits of the information length K from the LDPC target data supplied tothe LDPC encoder 115.

The coded parity operation unit 615 reads the parity check matrix Hgenerated by the parity check matrix generation unit 613 from thestorage unit 602, and calculates the parity bits for the informationbits read by the information bit reading unit 614 on the basis of apredetermined expression using the parity check matrix H, therebygenerating the codeword (LDPC code).

The control unit 616 controls blocks constituting the coding processingunit 601.

The storage unit 602 stores a plurality of parity check matrix initialvalue tables and the like respectively corresponding to the plurality ofcoding rates and the like illustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13 for the codelengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bits, and the like, for example.Furthermore, the storage unit 602 temporarily stores data necessary forthe processing of the coding processing unit 601.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for describing an example of the processing ofthe LDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 18.

In step S201, the coding rate setting unit 611 sets the code length Nand the coding rate r for performing the LDPC coding, and in addition,the specific information specifying another LDPC code.

In step S202, the initial value table reading unit 612 reads, from thestorage unit 602, the predetermined parity check matrix initial valuetable specified by the code length N, the coding rate r, and the like asthe specific information set by the coding rate setting unit 611.

In step S203, the parity check matrix generation unit 613 obtains(generates) the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code with the codelength N and the coding rate r set by the coding rate setting unit 611,using the parity check matrix initial value table read from the storageunit 602 by the initial value table reading unit 612, and supplies andstores the parity check matrix H in the storage unit 602.

In step S204, the information bit reading unit 614 reads the informationbits of the information length K (=N×r) corresponding to the code lengthN and the coding rate r set by the coding rate setting unit 611 from theLDPC target data supplied to the LDPC encoder 115, and reads the paritycheck matrix H obtained by the parity check matrix generation unit 613from the storage unit 602, and supplies the information bits and theparity check matrix H to the coded parity operation unit 615.

In step S205, the coded parity operation unit 615 sequentially operatesthe parity bit of the codeword c that satisfies the expression (8),using the information bits and the parity check matrix H from theinformation bit reading unit 614.

Hc^(T)=0   (8)

In the expression (8), c represents the row vector as the codeword (LDPCcode), and c^(T) represents transposition of the row vector c.

Here, as described above, in the case of representing the portion of theinformation bits, of the row vector c as the LDPC code (one codeword),by the row vector A, and the portion of the parity bits, of the rowvector c, by the row vector T, the row vector c can be expressed by theexpression c=[A|T] by the row vector A as the information bits and therow vector T as the parity bits.

The parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as the LDPC codeneed to satisfy an expression Hc^(T)=0, and the row vector T as theparity bits constituting the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying theexpression Hc^(T)=0 can be sequentially obtained by sequentially settingthe element of each row to 0 from the element in the 1st row of thecolumn vector Hc^(T) in the expression Hc^(T)=0 in a case where theparity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] has thestep structure illustrated in FIG. 11.

The coded parity operation unit 615 obtains the parity bits T for theinformation hats A from the information bit reading unit 614, andoutputs the codeword c=[A|T] expressed by the information bits A and theparity bits T as an LDPC coding result of the information bits A.

Thereafter, in step S206, the control unit 616 determines whether toterminate the LDPC coding. In a case where it is determined in step S206that the LDPC coding is not terminated, in other words, in a case wherethere is still LDPC target data to be LDPC coded, the processing returnsto step S201 (or step S204), and hereinafter the processing from stepS201 (or step S204) to step S206 is repeated.

Furthermore, in step S206, in a case where it is determined that theLDPC coding is terminated, in other words, for example, in a case wherethere is no LDPC target data to be LDPC coded, the LDPC encoder 115terminates the processing.

In regard to the LDPC encoder 115, a parity check matrix initial valuetable (representing a parity check matrix) of LDPC codes with variouscode lengths N and coding rates can be prepared in advance. The LDPCencoder 115 can perform LDPC coding for the LDPC codes with various codelengths N and coding rates r, using the parity check matrix H generatedfrom the parity check matrix initial value table prepared in advance.

<Example of Parity Check Matrix Initial Value Table>

The parity check matrix initial value table is, for example, a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A)(FIG. 10) corresponding to the information length K according to thecode length N and the coding rate r of the LDPC code (the LDPC codedefined by the parity check matrix H) of the parity check matrix H, inevery 360 columns (unit size P), and is created in advance for eachparity check matrix H of each code length N and each coding rate r.

In other words, the parity check matrix initial value table indicates atleast the position of the elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A)in every 360 columns (unit size P).

Furthermore, as the parity check matrix H, there are a parity checkmatrix in which ail of the parity matrix H_(T) has the step structure,and a parity check matrix in which a part of the parity matrix H_(T) hasthe step structure and the remaining part is a diagonal matrix (unitmatrix).

Hereinafter, the method of expressing the parity check matrix initialvalue table indicating the parity check matrix in which a part of theparity matrix H_(T) has the step structure and the remaining part is adiagonal matrix is also referred to as a type A method. Furthermore, themethod of expressing the parity check matrix initial value tablerepresenting the parity check matrix in which ail of the parity matrixH_(T) has the step structure is also referred to as a type B method.

Furthermore, the LDPC code for the parity check matrix represented bythe parity check matrix initial value table by the type A method is alsoreferred to as a type A code, and the LDPC code for the parity checkmatrix represented by the parity check matrix initial value table by thetype B method is also referred to as a type B code.

The designations “type A” and “type B” are designations in accordancewith the standard of ATSC 3.0. For example, in ATSC 3.0, both the type Acode and type B code are adopted.

Note that, in DVB-T. 2 and the like, the type B code is adopted.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table by the type B method.

In other words, FIG. 20 illustrates the parity check matrix initialvalue table (representing the parity check matrix H) of the type B codewith the code length N of 16200 bits and the coding rate (coding rate onthe notation of DVB-T.2) r of 1/4 defined in the standard of DVB-T.2.

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 (FIG. 18) obtains the paritycheck matrix H as follows using the parity check matrix initial valuetable by the type B method.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a method of obtaining the paritycheck matrix H from the parity check matrix initial value table by thetype B method.

In other words, FIG. 21 illustrates the parity check matrix initialvalue table of the type B code with the code length N of 16200 bits andthe coding rate r of 2/3 defined in the standard of DVB-T.2.

The parity check matrix initial value table by the type B method is atable representing the positions of the elements of 1 of the entireinformation matrix H_(A) corresponding to the information length Kaccording to the code length N and the coding rate r of the LDPC code inevery 360 columns (unit size P). In the i-th row, row numbers of theelements of 1 of the (1+360×(i−1))th column of the parity check matrix H(the row number when the row number of the 1st row of the parity checkmatrix H is counted as 0) by the number of the column weight of the(1+360×(i−1))th column.

Here, since the parity matrix H_(T) (FIG. 10) corresponding to theparity length M, of the parity check matrix H by the type B method, hasthe step structure as illustrated in FIG. 15, the parity check matrix Hcan be obtained if the information matrix H_(A) (FIG. 10) correspondingto the information length K can be obtained according to the paritycheck matrix initial value table.

The number of rows k+1 of the parity check matrix initial value table bythe type B method differs depending on the information length K.

The relationship of the expression (9) holds between the informationlength K and the number of rows k+1 of the parity check matrix initialvalue table.

K=(k+1)×360   (9)

Here, 360 in the expression (9) is the unit size P described in FIG. 16.

In the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 21, thirteennumerical values are arranged is the 1st to 3rd rows, and threenumerical values are arranged in the 4th to (k+1)th rows (30th row inFIG. 21).

Therefore, the column weight of the parity check matrix H obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 21 is 13 from the1st to (1+360×(3−1)−1)th columns, and 3 from the (1+360×(3−1))th to K-thcolumns.

The 1st row of the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 21 is0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369, 3451, 4620, and2622, which represents that, in the 1st column of the parity checkmatrix H, the elements of the rows with the row numbers of 0, 2084,1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369, 3451, 4620, and 2622 are1 (and the other elements are 0).

Furthermore, the 2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value tablein FIG. 21 is 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373,971, 4358, and 3108, which represents that, in the 361 (=1+360×(2−1))stcolumn of the parity check matrix H, the elements of the rows with therow numbers of 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373,971, 4358, and 3108 are 1.

As described above, the parity check matrix value table represents thepositions of the elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A) of theparity check matrix H in every 360 columns.

The columns other than the (1+360×(i−1))th column of the parity checkmatrix H, in other words, the (2+360×(i−1)th to (360×i)th columns arearranged by cyclically shifting the elements of 1 of the (1+360×(i−1))thcolumn determined by the parity check matrix initial value tabledownward (downward of the columns) according to the parity length M.

In other words, for example, the (2+360×(i−1))th column is obtained bycyclically shifting the (1+360×(i−1))th column downward by M/360 (=q).The next (3+360×(i−1))th column is obtained by cyclically shifting the(1+360×(i−1))th column downward by 2×M/360 (=2×q) (by cyclicallyshifting the (2+360×(i−1))th column downward by M/360 (=q)).

Now, in a case where the numerical value of the j-th column (i-th fromthe left) in the i-th row (i-th from the top) of the parity check matrixinitial value table is denoted as h_(w−j), and the row number of theelement of j-th 1 of the w-th column of the parity check matrix H isdenoted as H_(w−j), the row number of the element of 1 of the w-thcolumn that is a column other than the (1+360×(i−1)th column of theparity check matrix H can be obtained by the expression (10).

H _(w−j)=mod{h _(i,j)+mod((w−1), P)×q, M)   (10)

Here, mod (x, y) means the remainder of dividing x by y.

Furthermore, P is the above-described unit size, and in the presentembodiment, P is 360 as in DVB-T.2 or the like and the standard of ATSC3.0, for example. Moreover, q is a value M/360 obtained by dividing theparity length M by the unit size P (=360).

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 (FIG. 18) specifies the rownumber of the element of 1 in the (1+360×(i−1))th column of the paritycheck matrix H using the parity check matrix initial value table.

Further, the parity check matrix generation unit 613 (FIG. 18)calculates the row number of the element of 1 in the w-th column that isa column other than the (1+360×(i−1))th column of the parity checkmatrix H by the expression (10), and generates the parity check matrix Hin which the elements of the row numbers obtained as described above are1.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating a structure of the parity check matrixH by the type A method.

The parity check matrix by the type A method is configured by an Amatrix, a B matrix, a C matrix, a D matrix, and a Z matrix.

The A matrix is an upper left matrix in the parity check matrix H, of M1rows and K columns represented by a predetermined value M1 and theinformation length K=the code length. N×the coding rate r of the LDPCcode.

The B matrix is a matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns having a stepstructure adjacent to the right of the A matrix.

The C matrix is a matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix.

The D matrix is an identity matrix of N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1 columnsadjacent to the right of the C matrix.

The Z matrix is a zero matrix (0 matrix) of M1 rows and N−K−M1 columnsadjacent to the right of the B matrix.

In the parity check matrix H by the type A method configured by theabove A matrix to D matrix and Z matrix, the A matrix and a part of theC matrix constitute the information matrix, and the B matrix, the restof the C matrix, the D matrix, and the Z matrix constitute the paritymatrix.

Note that, since the B matrix is a matrix with a step structure and theD matrix is an identity matrix, a part (the part of the B matrix) of theparity matrix of the parity check matrix H by the type A method has thestep structure and the remaining part (the part of the D matrix) is thediagonal matrix (identity matrix).

The A matrix and the C matrix have a cyclic structure of every unit sizeP columns (for example, 360 columns), similarly to the informationmatrix of the parity check matrix H by type B method, and the paritycheck matrix initial value table by the type A method represents thepositions of the elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrix in every360 columns.

Here, as described above, since the A matrix and a part of the C matrixconstitute an information matrix, the parity check matrix initial valuetable by the type A method representing the positions of the elements of1 of the A matrix and the C matrix in every 360 columns can be said torepresent at least the positions of the elements of 1 of the informationmatrix in every 360 columns.

Note that, since the parity check matrix initial value table by the typeA method represents the positions of the elements of 1 of the A matrixand the C matrix in every 360 columns, the parity check matrix initialvalue table can also be said to represent the positions of the elementsof 1 of a part (the remaining part of the C matrix) of the parity checkmatrix in every 360 columns.

FIG. 23 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table by a type A method.

In other words, FIG. 23 illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H withthe code length N of 35 bits and the coding rate r of 2/7.

The parity check matrix initial value table by the type A method is atable representing the positions of the elements of 1 of the A matrixand the C matrix in every unit size P. In the i-th row, row numbers ofthe elements of 1 of the (1+P×(i−1))th column of the parity check matrixH (the row number when the row number of the 1st row of the parity checkmatrix H is counted as 0) by the number of the column weight of the(1+P×(i−1))th column.

Note that, here, to simplify the description, the unit size P is 5, forexample.

The parity check matrix H by the type A method has M1, M2, Q1, and Q2,as parameters.

M1 (FIG. 22) is a parameter for determining the size of the B matrix,and takes a value that is a multiple of the unit size P. By adjustingM1, the performance of the LDPC code changes, and M1 is adjusted to apredetermined value when determining the parity check matrix H. Here, itis assumed that 15, which is three times the unit size P=5, is adoptedas M1.

M2 (FIG. 22) takes a value M−M1 obtained by subtracting M1 from theparity length 2.

Here, since the information length K is N×r=35×2/7=10 and the paritylength M is N−K=35−10=25, M2 is M−M1=25−15=10.

Q1 is obtained according to the expression Q1=M1/P, and represents thenumber of shifts (the number of rows) of cyclic shift in the A matrix.

In other words, the columns other than the (1+P×(i−1))th column of the Amatrix of the parity check matrix H by the type A method, in otherwords, the (2+P×(i−1))th to (P×i)th columns are arranged by cyclicallyshifting the elements of 1 of the (1+P×(i−1))th column determined by theparity check matrix initial value table downward (downward of thecolumns), and Q1 represents the number of shifts of the cyclic shift inthe A matrix.

Q2 is obtained according to the expression Q2=M2/P, and represents thenumber of shifts (the number of rows) of cyclic shift in the C matrix.

In other words, the columns other than the (1+P×(i−1))th column of the Cmatrix of the parity check matrix H by the type A method, in otherwords, the (2+P×(i−1))th to (P×i)th columns are arranged by cyclicallyshifting the elements of 1 of the (1+P×(i−1))th column determined by theparity check matrix initial value table downward (downward of thecolumns), and Q2 represents the number of shifts of the cyclic shift inthe C matrix.

Here, Q1 is M1/P=15/5=3, and Q2 is M2/P=10/5=2.

In the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23, threenumerical values are arranged in the 1st and 2nd rows, and one numericalvalue is arranged in the 3rd to 5th rows. According to the sequence ofthe numerical values, the column weights of the A matrix and the Cmatrix of the parity check matrix H obtained from the parity checkmatrix initial value table in FIG. 23 are 3 from the 1=(1+5×(1−1))st to10=(5×2)th columns, and 1 from the 11=(1+5×(3−1))th to 25=(5×5)thcolumns.

In other words, the 1st row of the parity check matrix initial valuetable in FIG. 23 is 2, 6, and 18, which represents that, in the 1stcolumn of the parity check matrix H, the elements of the rows with therow numbers of 2, 6, and 18 are 1 (and the other elements are 0).

Here, in this case, since the A matrix (FIG. 22) is a matrix of 15 rowsby 10 columns (M1 rows by K columns), and the C matrix (FIG. 22) is amatrix of 10 rows by 25 columns (N−K−M1 rows by K+M1 columns), the rowswith the row numbers 0 to 14 of the parity check matrix H are rows ofthe A matrix, and the rows with the row numbers 15 to 24 of the paritycheck matrix H are rows of the C matrix.

Therefore, rows #2 and #6 of the rows with the row numbers 2, 6, and 18(hereinafter described as rows #2, #6, and #18) are rows of the Amatrix, and the row #18 is a row of the C matrix.

The 2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23 is2, 10, and 19, which represents that, in the 6 (=1+5×(2−1))th column ofthe parity check matrix H, the elements of the rows #2, #10, and #19 are1.

Here, in the 6 (=(1+5×(2−1))th column of the parity check matrix H, therows #2 and #10 of the rows #2, #10, and #19 are rows of the A matrix,and the row #19 is a row of the C matrix.

The 3rd row of the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23 is22, which represents that, in the 11 (=1+5×(3−1))th column of the paritycheck matrix H, the element of the row #22 is 1.

Here, the row #22 is a row of the C matrix in the 11 1 (=1+5×(3−1))thcolumn of the parity check matrix H.

Similarly, 19 in the 4th row of the parity check matrix initial valuetable in FIG. 23 indicates that the element of the row #19 is 1 in the16 (=1+5×(4−1))th column of the parity check matrix H. 15 in the fifthrow of the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23 indicatesthat the element of the row #15 is 1 in the 21 (=1+5×(5−1))st column ofthe parity check matrix H.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value tablerepresents the positions of the elements of 1 of the A matrix and the Cmatrix of the parity check matrix H in every unit size P=5 columns.

The columns other than the (1+5×(i−1))th column of the A matrix and theC matrix of the parity check matrix H, in other words, the (2+5×(i−1))thto (5×i)th columns are arranged by cyclically shifting the elements of 1of the (1+5×(i−1))th column determined by the parity check matrixinitial value table downward (downward of the columns) according to theparameters Q1 and Q2.

In other words, for example, the (2+5×(i−1))th column of the A matrix isobtained by cyclically shifting the (1+5×(i−1))th column downward by Q1(=3). The next (3+5×(i−1))th column is obtained by cyclically shiftingthe (1+5×(i−1))th column downward by 2×Q1 (=2×3) (by cyclically shiftingthe (2+5×(i−1))th column downward by Q1).

Furthermore, for example, the (2+5×(i−1))th column of the C matrix isobtained by cyclically shifting the (1+5×(i−1))th column downward by Q2(=2). The next (3+5×(i−1))th column is obtained by cyclically shiftingthe (1+5×(i−1))th column downward by 2×Q2 (=2×2) (by cyclically shiftingthe (2+5×(i−1))th column downward by Q2).

FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an A matrix generated from a paritycheck matrix initial value table in FIG. 23.

In the A matrix in FIG. 24, the elements of the rows #2 and #6 of the 1(=1+5×(1−1))st column are 1 according to the 1st row of the parity checkmatrix initial value table in FIG. 23.

Then, the 2 (=(2+5×(1−1))nd to 5 (=(5+5×(1−1))th columns are obtained bycyclically shifting the previous column downward by Q1=3.

Moreover, in the A matrix in FIG. 24, the elements of the rows #2 and#10 of the 6 (=1+5×(2−1))th column are 1 according to the 2nd row of theparity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23.

Then, the 7 (=2+5×(2−1))th to 10 (=5+5×(2−1))th columns are obtained bycyclically shifting the previous column downward by Q1=3.

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating parity interleaving of the B matrix.

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Amatrix using the parity check matrix initial value table, and arrangesthe B matrix having a step structure adjacent to the right of the Amatrix. Then, the parity check matrix generation unit 613 treats the Bmatrix as a parity matrix, and performs parity interleaving such thatadjacent elements of 1 of the B matrix having step structure areseparated in the row direction by the unit size P=5.

FIG. 25 illustrates the A matrix and the B matrix after parityinterleaving of the B matrix in FIG. 24.

FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating the C matrix generated from the paritycheck matrix initial value table in FIG. 23.

In the C matrix in FIG. 26, the element of the row #18 of the 1(=1+5×(1−1))st column of the parity check matrix H is 1 according to the1st row of the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23.

Then, the 2 (=2+5×(1−1))th to 5 (=5+5×(1−1))th columns are obtained bycyclically shifting the previous column downward by Q2=2.

Moreover, in the C matrix in FIG. 26, according to the 2nd to 5th rowsof the parity check matrix initial value table in FIG. 23, the elementsof the row #19 of the 6 (=1+5×(2−1))th column of the parity check matrixH, the row #22 of the 11 (=1+5×(3−1))th column, the row #19 of the 16(=1+5×(4−1))th column, and the row #15 in the 21 (=1+5×(5−1))st columnare 1.

Then, the 7 (=2+5×(2−1))th to 10 (=5+4×(2−1))th columns, the 12(=2+5×(3−1))th to 15 (=5+5×(3−1))th columns, the 17 (=2+5×(4−1))th to 20(=5+5×(4−1))th columns, and the 22 (=2+5×(5−1))nd to 25th (=5+5×(5−1))thcolumns are obtained by cyclically shifting the previous columnsdownward by Q2=2.

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Cmatrix using the parity check matrix initial value table and arrangesthe C matrix below the A matrix and the B matrix (after parityinterleaving).

Moreover, the parity check matrix generation unit. 613 arranges the Zmatrix adjacent to the right of the B matrix and arranges the D matrixadjacent to the right of the C matrix to generate the parity checkmatrix H illustrated in FIG. 26.

FIG. 27 is a diagram for describing parity interleaving of the D matrix.

The parity check matrix generation unit 613 treats the D matrix aftergenerating the parity check matrix H in FIG. 26 as a parity matrix, andperforms parity interleaving of (only the D matrix) such that theelements of 1 of the odd rows and next even rows of the D matrix as anidentity matrix are separated by the unit size P=5 in the row direction.

FIG. 27 illustrates the parity check matrix H after the parityinterleaving of the D matrix, for the parity check matrix H in FIG. 26.

(The coded parity operation unit 615 (FIG. 18) of) the LDPC encoder 115performs LDPC coding (generates an LDPC code) using the parity checkmatrix H in FIG. 27, for example.

Here, the LDPC code generated using the parity check matrix H in FIG. 27is an LDPC code for which parity interleaving has been performed.Therefore, it is not necessary to perform the parity interleaving in theparity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9), for the LDPC code generated using theparity check matrix H in FIG. 27. In other words, the LDPC codegenerated using the parity check matrix H after the parity interleavingof the D matrix is performed is the LDPC code for which the parityinterleaving has been performed. Therefore, the parity interleaving inthe parity interleaver 23 is skipped for the LDPC code.

FIG. 28 illustrates a parity check matrix H in which column permutationas parity deinterleaving for restoring the parity interleaving isperformed for the B matrix, a part of the C matrix (a portion of the Cmatrix arranged below the B matrix), and the D matrix of the paritycheck matrix H in FIG. 27.

The LDPC encoder 115 can perform LDPC coding (generates an LDPC code)using the parity check matrix H in FIG. 28.

In a case of performing the LDPC coding using the parity check matrix Hin FIG. 28, an LDPC code for which parity interleaving is not performedcan be obtained according to the LDPC coding. Therefore, in a case ofperforming the LDPC coding using the parity check matrix H in FIG. 28,the parity interleaving is performed in the parity interleaver 23 (FIG.9).

FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating a transformed parity check matrix Hobtained by performing row permutation for the parity check matrix H inFIG. 27.

The transformed parity check matrix is, as described below, a matrixrepresented by a combination of a P×P identity matrix, a quasi identitymatrix in which one or more of 1 in the identity matrix is 0, a shiftmatrix in which the identity matrix or the quasi identity matrix iscyclically shifted, a sum matrix that is a sum of two or more of theidentity matrix, the quasi identity matrix, and the shift matrix, and aP×P zero matrix.

By using the transformed parity check matrix for decoding the LDPC code,architecture of performing P check node operations and variable nodeoperations at the same time can be adopted in decoding the LDPC code, asdescribed below.

<Hew LDPC Code>

One of methods of securing favorable communication quality in datatransmission using an LDPC code, there is a method using an LDPC codewith high performance.

Hereinafter, a new LDPC code with high performance (hereinafter alsoreferred to as a new LDPC code) will be described.

As the new LDPC code, for example, the type A code or the type B codecorresponding to the parity check matrix H having a cyclic structurewith the unit size P of 360, which is similar to DVB-T.2, ATSC 3.0, orthe like, can be adopted.

The LDPC encoder 115 (FIGS. 8 and 18) can perform LDPC coding to obtainthe new LDPC code, using (a parity check matrix H obtained from) aparity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPC code with thecode length N of 69120 bits, for example, which is longer than 64 kbits, and the coding rate r of any of 2/16, 3/16, 4/16, 5/16, 6/16,7/16, 8/16, 9/16, 10/16, 11/16, 12/16, 13/16, or 14/16, for example.

In this case, a parity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPCcode is stored in the storage unit 602 of the LDPC encoder 115 (FIG. 8).

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table (of the type A method) representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type A code (hereinafter also referred to as the type Acode with r=2/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120bits and the coding rate r of 2/16.

FIGS. 31 and 32 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H of thetype A code (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code withr=3/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length. N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 3/16.

Note that FIG. 32 is a diagram following FIG. 31.

FIG. 33 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table representing the parity check matrix H of the type Acode (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code with r=4/16) as anew LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate rof 4/16.

FIGS. 34 and 35 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H of thetype A code (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code withr=5/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 5/16.

Note that FIG. 35 is a diagram following FIG. 34.

FIGS. 36 and 37 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix value table representing the parity check matrix H of the type Acode (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code with r=6/16) as anew LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate rof 6/16.

Note that FIG. 37 is a diagram following FIG. 36.

FIGS. 38 and 39 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H of thetype A code (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code withr=7/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 7/16.

Note that FIG. 39 is a diagram following FIG. 38.

FIGS. 40 and 41 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H of thetype A code (hereinafter also referred to as the type A code withr=8/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 8/16.

Note that FIG. 41 is a diagram following FIG. 40.

FIGS. 42 and 43 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table (of the type B method) representing theparity check matrix H of the type B code (hereinafter also referred toas the type B code with r=7/16) as a new LDPC code with the code lengthN of 69120 bits and the coding rate r of 7/16.

Note that FIG. 43 is a diagram following FIG. 42.

FIGS. 44 and 45 are diagrams illustrating another example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code with r=7/16.

Note that FIG. 45 is a diagram following FIG. 44. The type B code withr=7/16 obtained from (the parity check matrix H represented by) theparity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 44 and 45 will be alsohereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=7/16.

FIGS. 46 and 47 are diagrams illustrating an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix H of thetype B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=8/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 8/16.

Note that FIG. 47 is a diagram following FIG. 46.

FIGS. 48 and 49 are diagrams illustrating another example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code with r=8/16.

Note that FIG. 49 is a diagram following FIG. 48. The type B code withr=8/16 obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table inFIGS. 48 and 49 will be also hereinafter referred to as another type Bcode with r=8/16.

FIGS. 50, 51, and 52 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=9/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length. N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 9/16.

Note that FIG. 51 is a diagram following FIG. 50 and FIG. 52 is adiagram following FIG. 51.

FIGS. 53, 54, and 55 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=9/16.

Note that FIG. 54 is a diagram following FIG. 53 and FIG. 55 is adiagram following FIG. 54. The type B code with r=9/16 obtained from theparity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 53 to 55 will be alsohereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=9/16.

FIGS. 56, 57, and 58 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=10/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length. N of 69120 bits andthe coding rate r of 10/16.

Note that. FIG. 57 is a diagram following FIG. 56 and FIG. 58 is adiagram following FIG. 57.

FIGS. 59, 60, and 61 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=10/16.

Note that FIG. 60 is a diagram following FIG. 59 and FIG. 61 is adiagram following FIG. 60. The type B code with r=10/16 obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 59 to 61 will bealso hereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=10/16.

FIGS. 62, 63, and 64 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=11/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 11/16.

Note that FIG. 63 is a diagram following FIG. 62 and FIG. 64 is adiagram following FIG. 63.

FIGS. 65, 66, and 67 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=11/16.

Note that FIG. 66 is a diagram following FIG. 65 and FIG. 67 is adiagram following FIG. 66. The type B code with r=11/16 obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 65 to 67 will bealso hereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=11/16.

FIGS. 68, 69, and 70 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=12/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length. N of 69120 bits andthe coding rate r of 12/16.

Note that. FIG. 69 is a diagram following FIG. 68 and FIG. 70 is adiagram following FIG. 69.

FIGS. 71, 72, and 73 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=12/16.

Note that FIG. 72 is a diagram following FIG. 71 and FIG. 73 is adiagram following FIG. 72. The type B code with r=12/16 obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 71 to 73 will bealso hereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=12/16.

FIGS. 74, 75, and 76 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=13/16) as a new LOPE code with the code length N of 69120 bits and thecoding rate r of 13/16.

Note that FIG. 75 is a diagram following FIG. 74 and FIG. 76 is adiagram following FIG. 75.

FIGS. 77, 78, and 79 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=13/16.

Note that FIG. 78 is a diagram following FIG. 77 and FIG. 79 is adiagram following FIG. 78. The type B code with r=13/16 obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 77 to 79 will bealso hereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=13/16.

FIGS. 80, 81, and 82 are diagrams illustrating an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table representing the parity check matrix Hof the type B code (hereinafter also referred to as the type B code withr=14/16) as a new LDPC code with the code length. N of 69120 bits andthe coding rate r of 14/16.

Note that FIG. 81 is a diagram following FIG. 60 and FIG. 82 is adiagram following FIG. 81.

FIGS. 83, 84, and 85 are diagrams illustrating another example of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix H of the type B code with r=14/16.

Note that FIG. 84 is a diagram following FIG. 63 and FIG. 85 is adiagram following FIG. 84. The type B code with r=14/16 obtained fromthe parity check matrix initial value table in FIGS. 83 to 85 will bealso hereinafter referred to as another type B code with r=14/16.

The new LDPC code has become an LDPC code with high performance.

Here, the LDPC code with high performance is an LDPC code obtained froman appropriate parity check matrix H.

The appropriate parity check matrix H is, for example, a parity checkmatrix that satisfies a predetermined condition that makes a bit errorrate (BER) (and a frame error rate (FER)) smaller when an LDPC codeobtained from a parity check matrix H is transmitted at lowE_(s)/N_(o)or E_(b)/N_(o) (signal power to noise power ratio per bit).

The appropriate parity check matrix H can be obtained by, for example,performing a simulation to measure HER when an LDPC code obtained fromvarious parity check matrices satisfying the predetermined condition istransmitted at low E_(s)/N_(o).

Examples of the predetermined condition to be satisfied by theappropriate parity check matrix H include a good analysis resultobtained by an analysis method of performance of code called densityevolution, and absence of a loop of the elements of 1, called cycle 4.

Here, it is known that the decoding performance of the LDPC code isdegraded if the elements of 1 are densely packed in the informationmatrix H_(A) as in the cycle 4, and therefore, absence of the cycle 4 isdesirable in the parity check matrix H.

In the parity check matrix H, the minimum value of a loop lengthconfigured by the elements of 1 is called girth. The absence of thecycle 4 means that the girth is greater than 4.

Note that the predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriateparity check matrix H can be appropriately determined from theviewpoints of improvement of the decoding performance of the LDPC code,facilitation (simplification) of the decoding processing for the LDPCcode, and the like.

FIGS. 86 and 87 are diagrams for describing density evolution in whichan analysis result as the predetermined condition to be satisfied by theappropriate parity check matrix H can be obtained.

The density evolution is a code analysis method of calculating anexpected value of an error probability for the entire LDPC code(ensemble) with the code length N of characterized by a degree sequenceto be described below.

For example, when increasing a variance of noise from 0 on an AWGNchannel, the expected value of the error probability of an ensemble isinitially 0, but the expected value becomes not 0 when the variance ofnoise becomes a certain threshold or greater.

According to the density evolution, the performance of the ensemble(appropriateness of the parity check matrix) can be determined bycomparing the threshold of the variance of noise (hereinafter alsoreferred to as performance threshold) at which the expected value of theerror probability becomes not 0.

Note that, for a specific LDPC code, an ensemble to which the LDPC codebelongs is determined, and the density evolution is performed for theensemble, whereby rough performance of the LDPC code can be predicted.

Therefore, if an ensemble with high performance is found, the LDPC codewith high performance can be found from LDPC codes belonging to theensemble.

Here, the above-described degree sequence indicates what ratio thevariable nodes and check nodes having weights of respective values existat to the code length N of the LDPC code.

For example, a regular (3, 6) LDPC code with the coding rate of 1/2belongs to an ensemble characterized by the degree sequence that theweight (column weight) of all the variable nodes is 3 and the weight(row weight) of all the check nodes is 6.

FIG. 86 shows a Tanner graph of such an ensemble.

In the Tanner bluff in FIG. 86, N variable nodes illustrated by thecircles (∘) in FIG. 86 exist, the number N being equal to the codelength N, and N/2 check nodes illustrated by the squares (□) in FIG. 86exist, the number N/2 being equal to a multiplication value obtained bymultiplying the code length N by the coding rate 1/2.

Three edges with an equal column weight are connected to each variablenode. Therefore, there are a total of 3N edges connected to the Nvariable nodes.

Furthermore, six edges with an equal row weight are connected to eachcheck node. Therefore, there are a total 3N edges connected to the N/2check nodes.

Moreover, in the Tanner graph in FIG. 86, there is one interleaver.

The interleaver randomly rearranges the 3N edges connected to the Nvariable nodes and connects each edge after the rearrangement, to any ofthe 3N edges connected to the N/2 check nodes.

The number of patterns for rearranging the 3N edges connected to the Nvariable nodes in the interleaver is (3N) ! (=(3N)×(3N−1)× . . . ×1).Therefore, the ensemble characterized by the degree sequence that theweight of all the variable nodes is 3 and the weight of all the checknodes is 6 is a set of (3N) ! LDPC codes.

In the simulation for finding the LDPC code with high performance(appropriate parity check matrix), a multi-edge type ensemble has beenused in the density evolution.

In the multi-edge type ensemble, the interleaver through which the edgesconnected to the variable nodes and the edges connected to the checknodes pass is divided into multi edges, whereby characterization by theensemble is more strictly performed.

FIG. 87 is a diagram illustrating an example of Tanner graph of amulti-edge type ensemble.

In the Tanner graph in FIG. 87, there are two interleavers of a firstinterleaver ant a second interleaver.

Furthermore, in the Tanner graph in FIG. 87, v1 variable nodes eachconnected with one edge connected to the first interleaver and 0 edgesconnected to the second interleaver, v2 variable nodes each connectedwith one edge connected to the first interleaver and two edges connectedto the second interleaver, and v3 variable nodes each connected with 0edges connected to the first interleaver and two edges connected to thesecond interleaver exist.

Moreover, in the Tanner graph in FIG. 87, c1 check nodes each connectedwith two edges connected to the first interleaver and 0 edges connectedto the second interleaver, c2 check nodes each connected with two edgesconnected to the first interleaver and two edges connected to the secondinterleaver, and c3 check nodes each connected with 0 edges connected tothe first interleaver and three edges connected to the secondinterleaver exist.

Here, the density evolution and its implementation are described in, forexample, “On the Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes within 0.0045dB of the Shannon Limit”, S. Y. Chung, G. D. Forney, T. J. Richardson,R. Urbanke, IEEE Communications Leggers, VOL. 5, NO. 2, February 2001.

In the simulation for finding (the parity check matrix of) the new LDPCcode, an ensemble in which the performance threshold that is E_(b)/N₀(signal power to noise power ratio per bit) at which BER starts to drop(start to become small) becomes a predetermined value or less is foundby the multi-edge type density evolution, and the LDPC code that makesBER small in a case of using one or more quadrature modulations such asQPSK is selected from among the LDPC codes belonging to the ensemble asthe LDPC code with high performance.

(The parity check matrix initial value table representing the paritycheck matrix of) the new LDPC code has been obtained by the abovesimulation.

Therefore, according to the new LDPC code, favorable communicationquality can be secured in data transmission.

FIG. 88 is a diagram for describing the column weights of a parity checkmatrix H of the type A code as the new LDPC code.

It is assumed that, in regard to the parity check matrix H of the type Acode, as illustrated in FIG. 88, the column weights of K1 columns fromthe 1st column of the A matrix are represented as Y1, the column weightsof following K2 columns of the A matrix are represented as Y2, thecolumn weights of K1 columns from 1st column of the C matrix arerepresented as X1, the column weights of the following K2 columns of theC matrix are represented as X2, and the column weights of the furtherfollowing M1 columns of the C matrix are represented as X3.

Note that K1+K2 is equal to the information length K, and M1+M2 is equalto the parity length M. Therefore, K1+K2+M1+M2 is equal to the codelength N=69120 bits.

Furthermore, in regard to the parity check matrix H of the type A code,the column weights of M1−1 columns from the 1st column of the B matrixare 2, and the column weight of the M1-th column (last column) of the Bmatrix is 1. Moreover, the column weight of the D matrix is 1 and thecolumn weight of the Z matrix is 0.

FIG. 89 is a diagram illustrating parameters of parity check matrices Hof the type A codes (represented by the parity check matrix initialvalue tables) in FIGS. 30 to 41.

X1, Y1, K1, X2, Y2, K2, X3, M1, and M2 as the parameters and theperformance thresholds of the parity check matrices H of the type Acodes with r=2/16, 3/16, 4/16, 5/16, 6/16, 7/16, and 8/16 are asillustrated in FIG. 89.

The parameters X1, Y1, K1 (or K2), X2, Y2, X3, and M1 (or M2) are set soas to further improve the performance (for example, the error rate orthe like) of the LDPC codes.

FIG. 90 is a diagram for describing the column weights of the paritycheck matrix H of the type B code as the new LDPC code.

It is assumed that, in regard to the parity check matrix H of the type Bcode, as illustrated in FIG. 90, the column weights of KX1 columns fromthe 1st column are represented as X1, the column weights of thefollowing KX2 columns are represented as X2, the column weights of thefollowing KY1 columns are represented as Y1, and the column weights ofthe following KY2 columns are represented as Y2.

Note that KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2 is equal to the information length K, andKX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M is equal to the code length N=69120 bits.

Furthermore, in regard to the parity check matrix H of the type B code,the column weights of M−1 columns excluding the last column, of the lastM columns, are 2, and the column weight of the last one column is 1.

FIG. 91 is a diagram illustrating parameters of parity check matrices Hof the type B codes (represented by the parity check matrix initialvalue tables) in FIGS. 42 to 85.

X1, KX1, X2, KX2, Y1, KY1, Y2, K12, and M as the parameters and theperformance thresholds of the parity check matrices H of the type Bcodes and another type B code with r=7/16, 8/16, 9/16, 10/16, 11/16,12/16, 13/16, and 14/16 are as illustrated in FIG. 91.

The parameters X1, KX1, X2, KX2, Y1, KY1, Y2, and KY2 are set so as tofurther improve the performance of the LDPC codes.

According to the new LDPC code, favorable BER/FEE is realized, and acapacity (channel capacity) close to the Shannon limit is realized.

<Constellation>

FIGS. 92 to 107 illustrate diagrams illustrating examples ofconstellations adaptable in the transmission system in FIG. 7.

In the transmission system in FIG. 7, a constellation used in MODCOD canbe set for the MODCOD that is a combination of a modulation method(MODulation) and the LDPC code (CODe).

One or more constellations can be set to one MODCOD.

As the constellation, there are a uniform constellation (UC) in whicharrangement, of signal points is uniform and a non uniform constellation(NUC) in which the arrangement of signal points are non-uniform.

Furthermore, as the NUC, there are constellation called 1-dimensionalM²-QAM non-uniform constellation (1D NUC), a constellation called2-dimensional QQAM non-uniform constellation (2D NUC), and the like.

In general, the BER is further improved in the 1D NUC than the UC, andmoreover, the BER is further improved in the 2D NUC than the 1D NUC.

The constellation with the modulation method of QPSK is the UC. Forexample, the UC or the 2D NUC can be adopted as a constellation for themodulation method of 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, or the like. For example,the UC or the 1D NUC can be adopted as a constellation for themodulation method of 1024 QAM, 4096 QAM, or the like.

In the transmission system in FIG. 7, for example, constellationsdefined in ATSC 3.0, DVB-C.2 or the like, and various otherconstellations can be used.

In other words, in a case where the modulation method is QPSK, forexample, the same UC can be used for the coding rates r of the LDPCcodes.

Furthermore, in a case where the modulation method is 16 QAM, 64 QAM, or256 QAM, for example, the same UC can be used for the coding rates r ofthe LDPC codes. Moreover, in a case where the modulation method is 16QAM, 64 QAM, or 256 QAM, for example, different 2D NUCs can be used forthe coding rates r of the LDPC codes, respectively.

Furthermore, in a case where the modulation method is 1024 QAM or 4096QAM, for example, the same UC can be used for the coding rates r of theLDPC codes. Moreover, in a case where the modulation method is 1024 QAMor 4096 QAM, for example, different 1D NUCs can be used for the codingrates r of the LDPC codes, respectively.

Here, UC of QPSK is also described as QPSK-UC, and UC of 2^(m)QAM isalso described as 2^(m)QAM-UC. Furthermore, 1D NUC and 2D NUC of2^(m)QAM are also described as 2^(m)QAM-1D NUC and 2^(m)QAM-2D NUC,respectively.

Hereinafter, some of the constellations defined in ATSC 3.0 will bedescribed.

FIG. 92 is a diagram illustrating coordinates of QPSK-UC signal pointsused for all coding rates of LDPC codes defined in ATSC 3.0 in a casewhere the modulation method is QPSK.

In FIG. 92, “Input Data cell y” represents a 2-bit symbol to be mappedto QPSK-UC, and “Constellation point z_(s)” represents coordinates of asignal point z_(s). Note that an index s of the signal point z_(s) (anindex q of a signal point z_(q) as described below is similar)represents discrete time of the symbol (a time interval between onesymbol and the next symbol).

In FIG. 92, the coordinates of the signal point z_(s) are represented inthe form of a complex number, and j represents an imaginary unit(√(−1)).

FIG. 93 is a diagram illustrating coordinates of 16 QAM-2D NUC signalpoints used for the coding rates r (CR)=2/15, 3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 6/15,7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15 of the LDPC codesdefined in ATSC 3.0, in a case where the modulation method is 16 QAM.

In FIG. 93, the coordinates of the signal point z_(s) are represented inthe form of a complex number, and j represents an imaginary unit,similarly to FIG. 92.

In FIG. 93, w#k represents coordinates of a signal point in the firstquadrant of the constellation.

In the 2D NUC, a signal point in the second quadrant of theconstellation is arranged at a position obtained by symmetrically movinga signal point in the first quadrant with respect to a Q axis, and asignal point in the third quadrant of the constellation is arranged at aposition obtained by symmetrically moving a signal point in the firstquadrant with respect to the origin. Then, a signal point in the fourthquadrant of the constellation is arranged at a position obtained bysymmetrically moving a signal point in the first quadrant with respectto an I axis.

Here, in a case where the modulation method is 2^(m)QAM, in bits areregarded as one symbol, and the one symbol is mapped to the signal pointcorresponding to the symbol.

The m-bit symbol can be expressed by, for example, an integer value of 0to 2^(m)−1. Now, symbols y(0), y(1), . . . , y(2^(m)−1) represented byinteger values of 0 to 2^(m)−1 where b=2^(m)/4 can be classified intofour: symbols y(0) to y(b−1), y(b) to y(2b−1), y(2b) to y(3b−1), andy(3b) to y(4b−1).

In FIG. 93, the suffix k of w#k takes an integer value in a range of 0to b−1, and w#k represents coordinates of a signal point correspondingto a symbol y(k) in a range of symbols y(0) to y(b−1).

Then, coordinates of a signal point corresponding to a symbol y(k+b) ina range of symbols y(b) to y(2b−1) are represented as −conj(w#k), andcoordinates of a signal point corresponding to a symbol y(k+2b) in arange of symbols y(2b) to y(3b−1) are represented as conj(w#k).Furthermore, coordinates of a signal point corresponding to a symboly(k+3b) in a range of symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1) are represented by −w#k.

Here, conj (w#k) represents a complex conjugate of w#k.

For example, in a case where the modulation method is 16 QAM, symbolsy(0), y(1), . . . , and y(15) of m=4 bits where b=2⁴/4=4 are classifiedinto four: symbols y(0) to v(3), y(4) to y(7), y(8) to y(11), and y(12)to y(15).

Then, for example, the symbol y(12), of the symbols y(0) to y(15), is asymbol y(k+3b)=y(0+3×4) in the range of symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1)) andk=0, and therefore the coordinates of the signal point corresponding tothe symbol y(12) is −w#k=−w0.

Now, assuming that the coding rate r (CR) of the LDPC code is, forexample, 9/15, w0 in a case where the modulation method is 16 QAM andthe coding rate r is 9/15 is 0.2386+j0.5296 according to FIG. 93, andtherefore the coordinates −w0 of the signal point corresponding to thesymbol y(12) is −(0.2386+10.5296).

FIG. 94 is a diagram illustrating an example of coordinates of 1024QAM-1D NUC signal points used for the coding rates r (CR)=2/15, 3/15,4/15, 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15 ofthe LDPC codes defined in ATSC 3.0, in a case where the modulationmethod is 1024 QAM.

In FIG. 94, u#k represents a real part Re(z_(s)) and an imaginary partIm(z_(s)) of the complex number as the coordinates of the signal pointz_(s) of 1D NUC.

FIG. 95 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between the symbol y of1024 QAM, and u#k as the real part Re(z_(s)) and the imaginary partIm(z_(s)) of the complex number representing the coordinates of thesignal point z_(s) of the 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

Now, it is assumed that the 10-bit symbol y of 1024 QAM is representedas, from the lead bit (most significant bit), y_(0,s), y_(1,s), y_(2,s),y_(3,s), y_(4,s), y_(5,s), y_(6,s), y_(7,s), y_(8,s), and y_(9,s).

A in FIG. 95 illustrates a correspondence between the even-numbered 5bits y_(1,s), y_(3,s), y_(5,s), y_(7,s), and y_(9,s) of the symbol y,and u#k representing the real part Re(z_(s)) of (the coordinates) of thesignal point z_(s) corresponding to the symbol y.

B in FIG. 95 illustrates a correspondence between the odd-numbered 5bits y_(0,s), y_(2,s), y_(4,s), y_(6,s), and y_(8,s) of the symbol y,and u#k representing the imaginary part Im(z_(s)) of the signal pointz_(s) corresponding to the symbol y.

In a case where the 10-bit symbol y=(y_(0,s), y_(1,s), y_(2,s), y_(3,s),y_(4,s), y_(5,s), y_(6,s), y_(7,s), y_(8,s), and y_(9,s)) of 1024 QAM is(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), for example, the odd-numbered 5 bitsy_(0,s), y_(2,s), y_(4,s), y_(6,s), and y_(8,s) are (0, 1, 0, 1, 0) andthe even-numbered 5 bits y_(1,s), y_(3,s), y_(5,s), y_(7,s), and y_(9,s)are (0, 0, 1, 1, 0).

In A in FIG. 95, the even-numbered 5 bits (0, 0, 1 1, 0) are associatedwith u11, and therefore the real part Re(z_(s)) of the signal pointz_(s) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) isu11.

In B in FIG. 95, the odd-numbered 5 bits (0, 1, 1, 0) are associatedwith u3, and therefore the imaginary part Im(z_(s)) of the signal pointz_(s) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) isu3.

Meanwhile, when the coding rate r of the LDPC code is 6/15, for example,in regard to the 1D NUC used in a case where the modulation method is1024 QAM and the coding rate r (CR) of the LDPC code=6/15, u3 is 0.1295and u11 is 0.7196, according to FIG. 94.

Therefore, the real part Re(z_(s)) of the signal point z_(s)corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) isu11=0.7196 and the imaginary part Im(z_(s)) is u3=0.1295. As a result,the coordinates of the signal point z_(s) corresponding to the symboly=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0) are expressed by 0.7196+j0.1295.

Note that the signal points of the 1D NUC are arranged in a lattice on astraight line parallel to the I axis and a straight line parallel to theQ axis in the constellation. However, the interval between signal pointsis not constant. Furthermore, average power of the signal points on theconstellation can be normalized in transmission of (data mapped to) thesignal points. Normalization can be performed by, where the root meansquare of absolute values of all (the coordinates of) the signal pointson the constellation is P_(ave), multiplying each signal point z_(s) onthe constellation by a reciprocal 1/(√P_(ave)) of the square root√P_(ave) of the root mean square value P_(ave).

The transmission system in FIG. 7 can use the constellation defined inATSC 3.0 as described above.

FIGS. 96 to 107 illustrate coordinates of a signal point of UC definedin DVB-C.2.

In other words. FIG. 96 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q))of coordinate z_(q) of a signal point of QPSK-UC (UC in QPSK) defined inDVB-C.2. FIG. 97 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(z_(q))of coordinates z_(q) of a signal point of QPSK-UC defined in DVB-C.2.

FIG. 98 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q)) of coordinatesz_(q) of a signal point of 16 QAM-UC (UC of 16 QAM) defined in DVB-C.2.FIG. 99 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(z_(q)) ofcoordinates z_(q) of a signal point of 16 QAM-UC defined in DVB-C.2.

FIG. 100 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q)) of coordinatesz_(q) of a signal point of 64 QAM-UC (UC of 64 QAM) defined in DVB-C.2.FIG. 101 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(z_(q)) ofcoordinates z_(q) of a signal point of 64 QAM-UC defined in DVB-C.2.

FIG. 102 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q)) of coordinatesz_(q) of a signal point of 256 QAM-UC (U of 256 QAM) defined in DVB-C.2.FIG. 103 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(Z_(q)) ofcoordinates z_(q) of a signal point of 256 QAM-UC defined in DVB-C.2.

FIG. 104 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q)) of coordinatesz_(q) of a signal point of 1024 QAM-UC (UC of 1024 QAM) defined inDVB-C.2. FIG. 105 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(z_(q))of coordinates z_(q) of a signal point of 1024 QAM-UC specified inDVB-C.2.

FIG. 106 is a diagram illustrating a real part Re(z_(q)) of coordinatesz_(q) of a signal point of 4096 QAM-UC (UC of 4096 QAM) defined inDVB-C.2. FIG. 107 is a diagram illustrating an imaginary part Im(z_(q))of coordinates z_(q) of a signal point of 4096 QAM-UC defined inDVB-C.2.

Note that, in FIGS. 96 to 107, y_(i,q) represent the (i+1)th bit fromthe head of the m-bit symbol (for example, 2-bit symbol in QPSK) of2^(m)QAM. Furthermore, the average power of the signal points on theconstellation can be normalized in transmission of (data mapped to) thesignal points of the UC. Normalization can be performed by, where theroot mean square of absolute values of all (the coordinates of) thesignal points on the constellation is P_(ave), multiplying each signalpoint z_(q) on the constellation by a reciprocal 1/(√P_(ave)) of thesquare root √P_(ave) of the root mean square value P_(ave).

In the transmission system in FIG. 7, the UC defined in DVB-C.2 asdescribed above can be used.

In other words, the UCs illustrated in FIGS. 96 to 107 can be used forthe new LDPC codes corresponding to (the parity check matrix initialvalue tables) with the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding ratesr of 2/16, 3/16, 4/16, 5/16, 6/16, 7/16, 8/16, 9/16, 10/16, 11/16,12/16, 13/16, and 14/16 in FIGS. 30 to 85.

<Block Interleaver 25>

FIG. 108 is a diagram for describing block interleaving performed by theblock interleaver 25 in FIG. 9.

The block interleaving is performed by dividing the LDPC code of onecodeword into a part called part 1 and a part called part 2 from thehead of the LDPC code.

Npart 1+Npart 2 is equal to the code length N, where the length (bitlength) of part 1 is Npart 1 and the length of part 2 is Npart 2.

Conceptually, in the block interleaving, columns as storage areas eachstoring Npart1/m bits in a column (vertical) direction as one directionare arranged in a row direction orthogonal to the column direction bythe number m equal to the bit length m of the symbol, and each column isdivided from the top into a small unit of 360 bits that is the unit sizeP. This small unit of column is also called column unit.

In block interleaving, as illustrated in FIG. 108, writing part 1 of theLDPC code of one codeword from the top of the first column unit of thecolumn downward (in the column direction) is performed in the columnsfrom a left to right direction.

Then, when writing to the first column unit of the rightmost column iscompleted, writing returns to the leftmost column, and writing downwardfrom the top of the second column unit of the column is performed in thecolumns from the left to right direction, as illustrated in FIG. 108.Hereinafter, the writing part 1 of the LDPC code of one codeword issimilarly performed.

When the writing part 1 of the LDPC code of one codeword is completed,part 1 of the LDPC code is read in units of m bits in the row directionfrom the first column of all the m columns, as illustrated in FIG. 106.

The unit of m bits of part 1 is supplied from the block interleaver 25to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8) as the m-bit symbol.

The reading of part 1 in units of m bits is sequentially performedtoward lower rows of the m columns. When the reading of part 1 iscompleted, part 2 is divided into units of m bits from the top, and theunit of m bits is supplied from the block interleaver 25 to the mapper117 as the m-bit symbol.

Therefore, part 1 is symbolized while being interleaved, and part 2 issymbolized by sequentially dividing into m bits without beinginterleaved.

Npart1/m as the length of the column is a multiple of 360 as the unitsize P, and the LDPC code of one codeword is divided into part 1 andpart 2 so that Npart1/m becomes a multiple of 360.

FIG. 109 is a diagram illustrating examples of part 1 and part 2 of theLDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits in a case where themodulation method QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, 1024 QAM, and 4096 QAM.

In FIG. 109, part 1 is 68400 bits and part 2 is 720 bits in a case wherethe modulation method is 1024 QAM, and part 1 is 69120 bits and part. 2is 0 bits in cases where the modulation methods are QPSK, 16 QAM, 64QAM, 256 QAM, and 4096 QAM.

<Group-Wise Interleaving>

FIG. 110 is a diagram for describing group-wise interleaving performedby a group-wise interleaver 24 in FIG. 9.

In the group-wise interleaving, as illustrated in FIG. 110, the LDPCcode of one codeword is interleaved in units of bit groups according toa predetermined pattern (hereinafter also referred to as GW pattern)where one section of 360 bits is set as a bit group, the one section of360 bits being obtained by dividing the LDPC code of one code into unitsof 360 bits, the unit being equal to a unit size P, from the head of theLDPC code.

Here, the (i+1)th bit group from the head when the LDPC code of onecodeword is divided into bit groups is hereinafter also described as bitgroup i.

In a case where the unit size P is 360, for example, an LDPC code withthe code length N of 1800 bits is divided into 5 (=1800/360) bit groupsof bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Moreover, for example, an LDPC codewith the code length N of 69120 bits is divided into 192 (=69120/360)bit groups of the bit groups 0, 1, . . . , 191.

Furthermore, hereinafter, the GW pattern is represented by a sequence ofnumbers representing a bit group. For example, regarding the LDPC codewith the code length N of 1,800 bits, GW patterns 4, 2, 0, 3, and 1indicate interleaving (rearranging) sequence of the bit groups 0, 1, 2,3, and 4 into sequence of the bit groups 4, 2, 0, 3, and 1.

For example, now, it is assumed that the (i+1)th code bit from the headof the LDPC code with the code length N of 1800 bits is represented byx_(i).

In this case, according to the group-wise interleaving of the GWpatterns 4, 2, 0, 3, and 1, the LDPC code {x₀, x₁, . . . , x₁₇₉₉} of1800 bits is interleaved in sequence of {x₁₄₄₀, x₁₄₄₁, . . . , X₁₇₉₉},{x₇₂₀, x₇₂₁, . . . , x₁₀₇₉}, {x₀, x₁, . . . , x₃₅₉}, {x₁₀₈₀, x₁₀₈₁, . .. , x₁₄₃₉}, and {x₃₆₀, x₃₆₁, . . . , x₇₁₉}.

The GW pattern can be set to each code length N of the LDPC code, eachcoding rate r, each modulation method, each constellation, or eachcombination of two or more of the code length N, the coding rate r, themodulation method, and the constellation.

<Examples of GW Patterns for LDPC Codes>

FIG. 111 is a diagram illustrating a first example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 111, a sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

12, 8, 132, 26, 3, 18, 19, 98, 37, 190, 123, 81, 95, 167, 76, 66, 27,46, 105, 28, 29, 170, 20, 96, 35, 177, 24, 86, 114, 63, 52, 80, 119,153, 121, 107, 97, 129, 57, 38, 15, 91, 122, 14, 104, 175, 150, 1, 124,72, 90, 32, 161, 78, 44, 73, 134, 162, 5, 11, 179, 93, 6, 152, 180, 68,36, 103, 160, 100, 138, 146, 9, 82, 187, 147, 7, 87, 17, 102, 69, 110,130, 42, 16, 71, 2, 169, 58, 33, 136, 106, 140, 84, 79, 143, 156, 139,55, 116, 4, 21, 144, 64, 70, 158, 48, 118, 184, 50, 181, 120, 174, 133,115, 53, 127, 74, 25, 49, 88, 22, 89, 34, 126, 61, 94, 172, 131, 39, 99,183, 163, 111, 155, 51, 191, 31, 128, 149, 56, 85, 109, 10, 151, 188,40, 83, 41, 47, 178, 186, 43, 54, 164, 13, 142, 117, 92, 113, 182, 168,165, 101, 171, 159, 60, 166, 77, 30, 67, 23, 0, 65, 141, 185, 112, 145,135, 108, 176, 45, 148, 137, 125, 62, 75, 189, 59, 173, 154, 157.

FIG. 112 is a diagram illustrating a second example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 112, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

14, 119, 182, 5, 127, 21, 152, 11, 39, 164, 25, 69, 59, 140, 73, 9, 104,148, 77, 44, 138, 89, 184, 35, 112, 150, 178, 26, 123, 133, 91, 76, 70,0, 176, 118, 22, 147, 96, 108, 109, 139, 18, 157, 181, 126, 174, 179,116, 38, 45, 158, 106, 168, 10, 97, 114, 129, 180, 52, 7, 67, 43, 50,120, 122, 3, 13, 72, 185, 34, 83, 124, 105, 162, 87, 131, 155, 135, 42,64, 165, 41, 71, 189, 159, 143, 102, 153, 17, 24, 30, 66, 137, 62, 55,48, 98, 110, 40, 121, 187, 74, 92, 60, 101, 57, 33, 130, 173, 32, 166,128, 54, 99, 111, 100, 16, 84, 132, 161, 4, 190, 49, 95, 141, 28, 85,61, 53, 183, 6, 68, 2, 163, 37, 103, 186, 154, 171, 170, 78, 117, 93, 8,145, 51, 56, 191, 90, 82, 151, 115, 175, 1, 125, 79, 20, 80, 36, 169,46, 167, 63, 177, 149, 81, 12, 156, 142, 31, 47, 88, 65, 134, 94, 86,160, 172, 19, 23, 136, 58, 146, 15, 75, 107, 188, 29, 113, 144, 27.

FIG. 113 is a diagram illustrating a third example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 113, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

121, 28, 49, 4, 21, 191, 90, 101, 188, 126, 8, 131, 81, 150, 141, 152,17, 82, 61, 119, 125, 145, 153, 45, 108, 22, 94, 48, 29, 12, 59, 140,75, 169, 183, 157, 142, 158, 113, 79, 89, 186, 112, 80, 56, 120, 166,15, 43, 2, 62, 115, 38, 123, 73, 179, 155, 171, 185, 5, 168, 172, 190,106, 174, 96, 116, 91, 30, 147, 19, 149, 37, 175, 124, 156, 14, 144, 86,110, 40, 68, 162, 66, 130, 74, 165, 180, 13, 177, 122, 23, 109, 95, 42,117, 65, 3, 111, 18, 32, 52, 97, 184, 54, 46, 167, 136, 1, 134, 189,187, 16, 36, 84, 132, 170, 34, 57, 24, 137, 100, 39, 127, 6, 102, 10,25, 114, 146, 53, 99, 85, 35, 78, 148, 9, 143, 139, 92, 173, 27, 11, 26,104, 176, 98, 129, 51, 103, 160, 71, 154, 118, 67, 33, 181, 87, 77, 47,159, 178, 83, 70, 164, 44, 69, 88, 63, 161, 182, 133, 20, 41, 64, 76,31, 50, 128, 105, 0, 135, 55, 72, 93, 151, 107, 163, 60, 138, 7, 58.

FIG. 114 is a diagram illustrating a fourth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 114, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

99, 59, 95, 50, 122, 15, 144, 6, 129, 36, 175, 159, 165, 35, 182, 181,189, 29, 2, 115, 91, 41, 60, 160, 51, 106, 168, 173, 20, 138, 183, 70,24, 127, 47, 5, 119, 171, 102, 135, 116, 156, 120, 105, 117, 136, 149,128, 85, 46, 186, 113, 73, 103, 52, 82, 89, 184, 22, 185, 155, 125, 133,37, 27, 10, 137, 76, 12, 98, 148, 109, 42, 16, 190, 84, 94, 97, 25, 11,88, 166, 131, 48, 161, 65, 9, 8, 58, 56, 124, 68, 54, 3, 169, 146, 87,108, 110, 121, 163, 57, 90, 100, 66, 49, 61, 178, 18, 7, 28, 67, 13, 32,34, 86, 153, 112, 63, 43, 164, 132, 118, 93, 38, 39, 17, 154, 170, 81,141, 191, 152, 111, 188, 147, 180, 75, 72, 26, 177, 126, 179, 55, 1,143, 45, 21, 40, 123, 23, 162, 77, 62, 134, 158, 176, 31, 69, 114, 142,19, 96, 101, 71, 30, 140, 187, 92, 80, 79, 0, 104, 53, 145, 139, 14, 33,74, 157, 150, 44, 172, 151, 64, 78, 130, 83, 167, 4, 107, 174,

FIG. 115 is a diagram illustrating a fifth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 115, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

170, 45, 67, 94, 110, 153, 19, 38, 112, 176, 49, 138, 35, 114, 184, 159,17, 41, 47, 189, 65, 125, 154, 57, 83, 6, 97, 167, 51, 59, 23, 81, 54,46, 168, 178, 148, 5, 122, 129, 155, 179, 95, 102, 8, 119, 29, 113, 14,60, 43, 66, 55, 103, 111, 88, 56, 7, 118, 63, 134, 108, 61, 187, 124,31, 133, 22, 79, 52, 36, 144, 89, 177, 40, 116, 121, 135, 163, 92, 117,162, 149, 106, 173, 181, 11, 164, 185, 99, 18, 158, 16, 12, 48, 9, 123,147, 145, 169, 130, 183, 28, 151, 71, 126, 69, 165, 21, 13, 15, 62, 80,182, 76, 90, 180, 50, 127, 131, 109, 3, 115, 120, 161, 82, 34, 78, 128,142, 136, 75, 86, 137, 26, 25, 44, 91, 42, 73, 140, 146, 152, 27, 101,93, 20, 166, 171, 100, 70, 84, 53, 186, 24, 98, 4, 37, 141, 190, 68,150, 1, 72, 39, 87, 188, 191, 156, 33, 30, 160,132, 77, 0, 58, 174, 157,105, 175, 10, 172, 104, 2, 96, 139, 32, 85, 107, 74.

FIG. 116 is a diagram illustrating a sixth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 116, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

111, 156, 189, 11, 132, 114, 100, 154, 77, 79, 95, 161, 47, 142, 36, 98,3, 125, 159, 120, 40, 160, 29, 153, 16, 39, 101, 58, 191, 46, 76, 4,183, 176, 62, 60, 74, 7, 37, 127, 19, 186, 71, 50, 139, 27, 188, 113,38, 130, 124, 26, 146, 131, 102, 110, 105, 147, 86, 150, 94, 162, 175,88, 104, 55, 89, 181, 34, 69, 22, 92, 133, 1, 25, 0, 158, 10, 24, 116,164, 165, 112, 72, 106, 129, 81, 66, 54, 49, 136, 118, 83, 41, 2, 56,145, 28, 177, 168, 117, 9, 157, 173, 115, 149, 42, 103, 14, 84, 155,187, 99, 6, 43, 70, 140, 73, 32, 78, 75, 167, 148, 48, 134, 178, 59, 15,63, 91, 82, 33, 135, 166, 190, 152, 96, 137, 12, 182, 61, 107, 128, 119,179, 45, 184, 65, 172, 138, 31, 57, 174, 17, 180, 5, 30, 170, 23, 85,185, 35, 44, 123, 90, 20, 122, 8, 64, 141, 169, 121, 97, 108, 80, 171,18, 13, 87, 163, 109, 52, 51, 21, 93, 67, 126, 68, 53, 143, 144, 151.

FIG. 117 is a diagram illustrating a seventh example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 117, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121,122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135,136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163,164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 118 is a diagram illustrating an eighth example of a GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 118, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136,137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150,151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164,165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178,179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 119 is a diagram illustrating a ninth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 119, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121,122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135,136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163,164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 120 is a diagram illustrating a tenth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 120, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57,58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136,137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150,151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164,165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178,179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 121 is a diagram illustrating an eleventh example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 121, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 63, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92,93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136,137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150,151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164,165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178,179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 122 is a diagram illustrating a twelfth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 122, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121,122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135,136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163,164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 123 is a diagram illustrating a thirteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 123, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121,122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135,136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163,164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.

FIG. 124 is a diagram illustrating a fourteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 124, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

154, 106, 99, 177, 191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83,103, 169, 156, 130, 186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145,162, 127, 152, 174, 134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150,46, 153, 33, 61, 142, 102, 171, 168, 78, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128,101, 42, 2, 14, 38, 10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 47, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94,23, 34, 59, 35, 129, 12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167,36, 79, 138, 4, 95, 148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107,137, 88, 44, 116, 69, 7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24,58, 70, 11, 56, 143, 111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 52, 9, 71, 48, 26,117, 50, 149, 140, 20, 57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76,1, 97, 40, 53, 84, 166, 75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 187,25, 119, 41, 122, 16, 5, 93, 115, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179.

FIG. 125 is a diagram illustrating a fifteenth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 125, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

1, 182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189,56, 67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169,49, 73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33,21, 53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83,176, 159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165,59, 25, 161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23,12, 66, 70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160,34, 101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168,10, 107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136,55, 44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103,78, 109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75,18, 96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90.

FIG. 126 is a diagram illustrating a sixteenth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 126, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

35, 75, 166, 145, 143, 184, 62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187,144, 91, 78, 44, 39, 109, 185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94,130, 27, 171, 19, 51, 165, 148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49,120, 152, 161, 162, 147, 71, 137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92,90, 60, 99, 79, 59, 108, 115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86,117, 191, 101, 52, 15, 80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73,64, 16, 18, 146, 70, 181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113,97, 2, 6, 55, 17, 65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125,20, 106, 186, 182, 188, 114, 1, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22,190, 58, 23, 155, 138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118,121, 129, 168, 13, 128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76,50, 154, 139, 66, 85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122.

FIG. 127 is a diagram illustrating a seventeenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 127, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79, 59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32,54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34, 161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178,179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29, 67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 176, 16,71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2, 1, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61,117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162, 23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159,133, 8, 152, 103, 102, 151, 143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62,20, 83, 7, 187, 153, 64, 37, 144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122,127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189, 124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77,82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63, 148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70,182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136, 169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106,35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50, 72, 85, 1O, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138,43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, 1, 56, 107, 92, 147, 47, 30, 73, 167.

FIG. 128 is a diagram illustrating an eighteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 128, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 2, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70,124, 128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 83, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179,123, 183, 26, 188, 15, 163, 1, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180,185, 190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176,147, 189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135,71, 181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10,49, 80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19,27, 41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84,109, 104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129,159, 55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 143, 11, 93,62, 177, 64, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54,89, 99, 120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144.

FIG. 129 is a diagram illustrating a nineteenth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 129, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27, 109, 121, 153, 58, 181, 143, 164, 103,115, 91, 66, 60, 189, 101, 4, 14, 102, 45, 124, 104, 159, 130, 133, 135,77, 25, 59, 180, 141, 144, 62, 114, 182, 134, 148, 11, 20, 125, 83, 162,75, 126, 67, 9, 178, 171, 152, 166, 69, 174, 15, 80, 168, 131, 95, 56,48, 63, 82, 147, 51, 108, 52, 30, 139, 22, 37, 173, 112, 191, 98, 116,149, 167, 142, 29, 154, 92, 94, 71, 117, 79, 122, 129, 24, 81, 105, 97,137, 128, 1, 113, 170, 119, 7, 158, 76, 19, 183, 68, 31, 50, 118, 33,72, 55, 65, 146, 185, 111, 145, 28, 21, 177, 160, 32, 61, 70, 106, 156,78, 132, 88, 184, 35, 5, 53, 138, 47, 100, 10, 42, 36, 175, 93, 120,190, 16, 123, 87, 54, 186, 18, 57, 84, 99, 12, 163, 157, 188, 64, 38,26, 2, 136, 40, 169, 90, 107, 46, 172, 49, 6, 39, 44, 150, 85, 0, 17,127, 155, 110, 34, 96, 74, 86, 187, 89, 151, 43, 119, 161, 73, 23, 3.

FIG. 130 is a diagram illustrating a twentieth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 130, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

10, 61, 30, 88, 33, 60, 1, 102, 45, 103, 119, 181, 82, 112, 12, 67, 69,171, 108, 26, 145, 156, 81, 152, 8, 16, 68, 13, 99, 183, 146, 27, 158,147, 132, 118, 180, 120, 173, 59, 186, 49, 7, 17, 35, 104, 129, 75, 54,72, 18, 48, 15, 177, 191, 51, 24, 93, 106, 22, 71, 29, 141, 32, 143,128, 175, 86, 190, 74, 36, 43, 144, 46, 63, 65, 133, 31, 87, 44, 20,117, 76, 187, 80, 101, 151, 47, 130, 116, 162, 127, 153, 100, 94, 2, 41,138, 125, 131, 11, 50, 40, 21, 184, 167, 172, 85, 160, 105, 73, 38, 157,53, 39, 97, 107, 165, 168, 89, 118, 126, 3, 4, 111, 161, 155, 182, 136,149, 111, 98, 113, 139, 92, 109, 174, 185, 95, 56, 135, 37, 163, 154, 0,96, 78, 122, 5, 179, 140, 83, 123, 77, 9, 19, 66, 42, 137, 14, 23, 159,189, 110, 142, 84, 169, 166, 52, 91, 164, 28, 124, 121, 70, 115, 90,170, 58, 6, 178, 176, 64, 188, 57, 34, 79, 62, 25, 134, 150, 55.

FIG. 131 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-first example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 131, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

8, 165, 180, 182, 189, 61, 7, 140, 105, 78, 86, 75, 15, 28, 82, 1, 136,130, 35, 24, 70, 152, 121, 11, 36, 66, 83, 57, 164, 111, 137, 128, 175,156, 151, 48, 44, 147, 18, 64, 184, 42, 159, 3, 6, 162, 170, 98, 101,29, 102, 21, 188, 79, 138, 45, 124, 118, 155, 125, 34, 27, 5, 97, 109,145, 54, 56, 126, 187, 16, 149, 160, 178, 23, 141, 30, 117, 25, 69, 116,131, 94, 65, 191, 99, 181, 185, 115, 67, 93, 106, 38, 71, 76, 113, 132,172, 103, 95, 92, 107, 4, 163, 139, 72, 157, 0, 12, 52, 68, 88, 161,183, 39, 14, 32, 49, 19, 77, 174, 47, 154, 17, 134, 133, 51, 120, 74,177, 41, 108, 142, 143, 13, 26, 59, 100, 123, 55, 158, 62, 104, 148,135, 9, 179, 53, 176, 33, 169, 129, 186, 43, 167, 87, 119, 84, 90, 150,20, 122, 114, 80, 50, 146, 144, 96, 1171, 40, 73, 81, 168, 112, 190, 37,173, 46, 110, 60, 85, 153, 2, 63, 91, 127, 89, 31, 58, 22, 166.

FIG. 132 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-second example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 132, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

17, 84, 125, 70, 134, 63, 68, 162, 61, 31, 74, 137, 7, 138, 5, 60, 76,105, 160, 12, 114, 81, 155, 112, 153, 191, 82, 148, 118, 108, 58, 159,43, 161, 149, 96, 71, 30, 145, 174, 67, 77, 47, 94, 48, 156, 151, 141,131, 176, 183, 41, 35, 83, 164, 55, 169, 98, 187, 124, 100, 54, 104, 40,2, 72, 8, 85, 182, 103, 6, 37, 107, 39, 42, 123, 57, 106, 13, 150, 129,46, 109, 188, 45, 113, 44, 90, 20, 165, 142, 110, 22, 28, 173, 38, 52,16, 34, 0, 3, 144, 27, 49, 139, 177, 132, 184, 25, 87, 152, 119, 158,78, 186, 167, 97, 24, 99, 69, 120, 122, 133, 163, 21, 51, 101, 185, 111,26, 18, 10, 33, 170, 95, 65, 14, 130, 157, 59, 115, 127, 92, 56, 1, 80,66, 126, 178, 147, 75, 179, 171, 53, 146, 88, 4, 128, 121, 66, 117, 19,23, 166, 181, 11, 102, 93, 73, 140, 89, 136, 9, 180, 62, 36, 79, 91,190, 143, 29, 154, 32, 64, 166, 116, 15, 189, 175, 50, 135, 172.

FIG. 133 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 133, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

157, 20, 116, 115, 49, 178, 148, 152, 174, 130, 171, 81, 60, 146, 182,72, 46, 22, 93, 101, 9, 55, 40, 163, 118, 30, 52, 181, 151, 31, 87, 117,120, 82, 95, 190, 23, 36, 67, 62, 14, 167, 80, 27, 24, 43, 94, 0, 63, 5,74, 78, 158, 88, 84, 109, 147, 112, 124, 110, 21, 47, 45, 68, 184, 70,1, 66, 149, 105, 140, 170, 56, 98, 135, 61, 79, 123, 166, 185, 41, 108,122, 92, 16, 26, 37, 177, 173, 113, 136, 89, 162, 85, 54, 39, 73, 58,131, 134, 188, 127, 3, 164, 13, 132, 129, 179, 25, 18, 57, 32, 119, 111,53, 155, 28, 107, 133, 144, 19, 160, 71, 186, 153, 103, 2, 12, 91, 106,64, 175, 75, 189, 128, 142, 187, 76, 180, 34, 59, 169, 90, 11, 172, 97,141, 38, 191, 17, 114, 126, 145, 83, 143, 125, 121, 10, 44, 137, 86, 29,104, 154, 168, 65, 159, 15, 99, 35, 50, 48, 138, 96, 100, 102, 7, 42,156, 8, 4, 69, 183, 51, 165, 6, 150, 77, 161, 33, 176, 139.

FIG. 134 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 134, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

42, 168, 36, 37, 152, 118, 14, 83, 105, 131, 26, 120, 92, 130, 158, 132,49, 72, 137, 100, 88, 24, 53, 142, 110, 102, 74, 188, 113, 121, 12, 173,5, 126, 127, 3, 93, 46, 164, 109, 151, 2, 98, 153, 116, 89, 101, 136,35, 80, 0, 133, 183, 162, 185, 56, 17, 87, 117, 184, 54, 70, 176, 91,134, 51, 38, 73, 165, 99, 169, 43, 167, 86, 11, 144, 78, 58, 64, 13,119, 33, 166, 6, 75, 31, 15, 28, 125, 148, 27, 114, 82, 45, 55, 191,160, 115, 1, 69, 187, 122, 177, 32, 172, 52, 112, 171, 124, 180, 85,150, 7, 57, 60, 94, 181, 29, 97, 128, 19, 149, 175, 50, 140, 10, 174,68, 59, 39, 106, 44, 62, 71, 18, 107, 156, 159, 146, 48, 81, 111, 96,103, 34, 161, 141, 154, 76, 61, 135, 20, 84, 77, 108, 23, 145, 182, 170,139, 157, 47, 9, 63, 123, 138, 155, 79, 4, 30, 143, 25, 90, 66, 147,186, 179, 129, 21, 65, 41, 95, 67, 22, 163, 190, 16, 8, 104, 189, 40,178.

FIG. 135 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-fifth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 135, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

92, 132, 39, 44, 190, 21, 70, 146, 48, 13, 17, 187, 119, 43, 94, 157,150, 98, 96, 47, 86, 63, 152, 158, 84, 170, 81, 7, 62, 191, 174, 99,116, 10, 85, 113, 135, 28, 53, 122, 83, 141, 77, 23, 131, 4, 40, 168,129, 109, 51, 130, 188, 147, 29, 50, 26, 78, 148, 164, 167, 103, 36,134, 2, 177, 20, 123, 27, 90, 176, 5, 33, 133, 189, 138, 76, 41, 89, 35,72, 139, 32, 73, 68, 67, 101, 166, 93, 54, 52, 42, 110, 59, 8, 179, 34,171, 143, 137, 9, 126, 155, 108, 142, 120, 163, 12, 3, 75, 159, 107, 65,128, 87, 6, 22, 57, 100, 24, 64, 106, 117, 19, 58, 95, 74, 180, 125,136, 186, 154, 121, 161, 88, 37, 114, 102, 105, 160, 80, 185, 82, 124,184, 15, 16, 18, 118, 173, 151, 11, 91, 79, 46, 140, 127, 1, 169, 0, 61,66, 45, 162, 149, 115, 144, 30, 25, 175, 153, 183, 60, 38, 31, 111, 182,49, 55, 145, 56, 181, 104, 14, 71, 178, 112, 172, 165, 69, 97, 156.

FIG. 136 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-sixth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 136, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

133, 96, 46, 148, 78, 109, 149, 161, 55, 39, 183, 54, 186, 73, 150, 180,189, 190, 22, 135, 12, 80, 42, 130, 164, 70, 126, 107, 57, 67, 15, 157,52, 88, 5, 23, 123, 66, 53, 147, 177, 60, 131, 108, 171, 191, 44, 140,98, 154, 37, 118, 176, 92, 124, 138, 132, 167, 173, 13, 79, 32, 145, 14,113, 30, 2, 0, 165, 182, 153, 24, 144, 87, 82, 75, 141, 89, 137, 33,100, 106, 128, 168, 29, 36, 172, 11, 111, 68, 16, 10, 34, 188, 35, 160,77, 83, 178, 58, 59, 7, 56, 110, 104, 61, 76, 85, 121, 93, 19, 134, 179,155, 163, 115, 185, 125, 112, 71, 8, 119, 18, 47, 151, 26, 103, 122, 9,170, 146, 99, 49, 72, 102, 31, 40, 43, 158, 142, 4, 69, 139, 28, 174,101, 84, 129, 156, 74, 62, 91, 159, 41, 38, 45, 136, 169, 21, 51, 181,97, 166, 175, 90, 27, 86, 65, 105, 143, 127, 17, 6, 116, 94, 117, 48,50, 25, 64, 95, 63, 184, 152, 120, 1, 187, 162, 114, 3, 81, 20.

FIG. 137 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-seventh example of a GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 137, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

59, 34, 129, 18, 137, 6, 83, 139, 47, 148, 147, 110, 11, 98, 62, 149,158, 14, 42, 180, 23, 128, 99, 181, 54, 176, 35, 130, 53, 179, 39, 152,32, 52, 69, 82, 84, 113, 79, 21, 95, 7, 126, 191, 86, 169, 111, 12, 55,27, 182, 120, 123, 88, 107, 50, 144, 49, 38, 165, 0, 159, 10, 43, 114,187, 150, 19, 65, 48, 124, 8, 141, 171, 173, 17, 167, 92, 74, 170, 184,67, 33, 172, 16, 119, 66, 57, 89, 106, 26, 78, 178, 109, 70, 2, 157, 15,105, 22, 174, 127, 100, 71, 97, 163, 9, 77, 87, 41, 183, 117, 46, 40,131, 85, 136, 72, 122, 1, 45, 13, 44, 56, 61, 146, 25, 132, 177, 76,121, 160, 112, 5, 134, 73, 91, 135, 68, 3, 80, 90, 190, 60, 75, 145,115, 81, 161, 156, 116, 166, 96, 28, 138, 94, 162, 140, 102, 4, 133, 30,155, 189, 143, 64, 185, 164, 104, 142, 154, 118, 24, 31, 153, 103, 51,108, 29, 37, 58, 186, 175, 36, 151, 63, 93, 188, 125, 101, 20, 168.

FIG. 138 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-eighth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 138, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

61, 110, 123, 127, 148, 162, 131, 71, 176, 22, 157, 0, 151, 155, 112,189, 36, 181, 10, 46, 133, 75, 80, 88, 6, 165, 97, 54, 31, 174, 49, 139,96, 4, 170, 26, 50, 16, 141, 187, 13, 109, 106, 120, 72, 32, 63, 59, 79,172, 83, 100, 92, 24, 56, 130, 167, 81, 103, 111, 158, 159, 153, 175, 8,41, 136, 70, 33, 45, 84, 150, 39, 166, 164, 99, 126, 190, 134, 40, 87,64, 154, 140, 116, 184, 115, 183, 30, 35, 7, 42, 146, 86, 58, 12, 14,149, 89, 179, 128, 160, 95, 171, 74, 25, 29, 119, 143, 178, 28, 21, 23,90, 188, 96, 173, 93, 147, 191, 18, 62, 2, 132, 20, 11, 17, 135, 152,67, 73, 108, 76, 91, 156, 104, 48, 121, 94, 125, 38, 65, 177, 68, 37,124, 78, 118, 186, 34, 185, 113, 169, 9, 69, 82, 163, 114, 145, 168, 44,52, 105, 51, 137, 1, 161, 3, 55, 182, 101, 57, 43, 77, 5, 47, 144, 180,66, 53, 19, 117, 60, 138, 142, 107, 122, 85, 27, 129, 15, 102.

FIG. 139 is a diagram illustrating a twenty-ninth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 139, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

8, 174, 121, 46, 70, 106, 183, 9, 96, 109, 72, 130, 47, 168, 1, 190, 18,90, 103, 135, 105, 112, 23, 33, 185, 31, 171, 111, 0, 115, 4, 159, 25,65, 134, 146, 26, 37, 16, 169, 167, 74, 67, 155, 154, 83, 117, 53, 19,161, 76, 12, 7, 131, 59, 51, 189, 42, 114, 142, 126, 66, 164, 191, 55,132, 35, 153, 137, 87, 5, 100, 122, 150, 2, 49, 32, 172, 149, 177, 15,82, 98, 34, 140, 170, 56, 78, 188, 57, 118, 186, 181, 52, 71, 24, 81,22, 11, 156, 86, 148, 97, 38, 48, 64, 40, 165, 180, 125, 127, 143, 88,43, 61, 158, 28, 162, 187, 110, 84, 157, 27, 41, 39, 124, 85, 58, 20,44, 102, 36, 77, 147, 120, 179, 21, 60, 92, 138, 119, 173, 160, 144, 91,99, 107, 101, 145, 184, 108, 95, 69, 63, 3, 89, 128, 136, 94, 129, 50,79, 68, 151, 104, 163, 123, 182, 93, 29, 133, 152, 178, 80, 62, 54, 14,141, 166, 176, 45, 30, 10, 6, 75, 73, 116, 175, 17, 113, 139, 13.

FIG. 140 is a diagram illustrating a thirtieth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 140, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

179, 91, 101, 128, 169, 69, 185, 35, 156, 168, 132, 163, 46, 28, 5, 41,162, 112, 108, 130, 153, 79, 118, 102, 125, 176, 71, 20, 115, 98, 124,75, 103, 21, 164, 173, 9, 36, 56, 134, 24, 16, 159, 34, 15, 42, 104, 54,120, 76, 60, 33, 127, 68, 133, 137, 61, 19, 3, 170, 87, 190, 13, 141,188, 106, 113, 67, 145, 146, 111, 74, 89, 62, 175, 49, 32, 99, 93, 107,171, 66, 80, 155, 100, 152, 4, 10, 126, 109, 181, 154, 105, 48, 136,161, 183, 97, 31, 12, 8, 184, 47, 142, 18, 14, 117, 73, 84, 70, 68, 0,23, 96, 165, 29, 122, 81, 17, 131, 44, 157, 26, 25, 189, 83, 178, 37,123, 82, 191, 39, 7, 72, 160, 64, 143, 149, 138, 65, 58, 119, 63, 166,114, 95, 172, 43, 140, 57, 158, 186, 86, 174, 92, 45, 139, 144, 147,148, 151, 59, 30, 85, 40, 51, 187, 78, 38, 150, 129, 121, 27, 94, 52,177, 110, 182, 55, 22, 167, 90, 77, 6, 11, 1, 116, 53, 2, 50, 135, 180.

FIG. 141 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-first example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 141, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

99, 59, 95, 50, 122, 15, 144, 6, 129, 36, 175, 159, 165, 35, 182, 181,189, 29, 2, 115, 91, 41, 60, 160, 51, 106, 168, 173, 20, 138, 183, 70,24, 127, 47, 5, 119, 171, 102, 135, 116, 156, 120, 105, 117, 136, 149,128, 85, 46, 186, 113, 73, 103, 52, 82, 89, 184, 22, 185, 155, 125, 133,37, 27, 10, 137, 76, 12, 98, 148, 109, 42, 16, 190, 84, 94, 97, 25, 11,88, 166, 131, 48, 161, 65, 9, 8, 58, 56, 124, 68, 54, 3, 169, 146, 87,108, 110, 121, 163, 57, 90, 100, 66, 49, 61, 178, 18, 7, 28, 67, 13, 32,34, 86, 153, 112, 63, 43, 164, 132, 118, 93, 38, 39, 17, 154, 170, 81,141, 191, 152, 111, 188, 147, 180, 75, 72, 26, 177, 126, 179, 55, 1,143, 45, 21, 40, 123, 23, 162, 77, 62, 134, 158, 176, 31, 69, 114, 142,19, 96, 101, 71, 30, 140, 187, 92, 80, 79, 0, 104, 53, 145, 139, 14, 33,74, 157, 150, 44, 172, 151, 64, 78, 130, 83, 167, 4, 107, 174.

FIG. 142 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-second example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 142, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

16, 133, 14, 114, 145, 191, 53, 80, 166, 68, 21, 184, 73, 165, 147, 89,180, 55, 135, 94, 189, 78, 103, 115, 72, 24, 105, 188, 84, 148, 85, 32,1, 131, 34, 134, 41, 167, 81, 54, 142, 141, 75, 155, 122, 140, 13, 17,8, 23, 61, 49, 51, 74, 11, 162, 143, 42, 71, 123, 161, 177, 110, 149,126, 0, 63, 178, 35, 175, 186, 52, 43, 139, 112, 10, 40, 150, 182, 164,64, 83, 174, 38, 47, 30, 2, 116, 25, 128, 160, 144, 99, 5, 187, 176, 82,60, 18, 185, 104, 169, 39, 183, 137, 22, 109, 96, 151, 46, 33, 29, 65,132, 95, 31, 136, 159, 170, 168, 67, 79, 93, 111, 90, 97, 113, 92, 76,58, 127, 26, 27, 156, 3, 6, 28, 77, 125, 173, 98, 138, 172, 86, 45, 118,171, 62, 179, 100, 19, 163, 50, 57, 56, 36, 102, 121, 117, 154, 119, 66,20, 91, 130, 69, 44, 70, 153, 152, 158, 88, 108, 12, 59, 4, 11, 120, 87,101, 37, 129, 146, 9, 106, 48, 7, 15, 124, 190, 107, 157.

FIG. 143 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length P of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 143, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

178, 39, 54, 68, 122, 20, 86, 137, 156, 55, 52, 72, 130, 152, 147, 12,69, 48, 107, 44, 88, 23, 181, 174, 124, 81, 59, 93, 22, 46, 82, 110, 3,99, 75, 36, 38, 119, 131, 51, 115, 78, 84, 33, 163, 11, 2, 188, 161, 34,89, 50, 8, 90, 109, 136, 77, 103, 67, 41, 149, 176, 134, 189, 159, 184,153, 53, 129, 63, 160, 139, 150, 169, 148, 127, 25, 175, 142, 98, 56,144, 102, 94, 101, 65, 132, 76, 177, 0, 128, 45, 162, 92, 62, 133, 30,17, 9, 61, 70, 154, 4, 146, 24, 135, 104, 13, 185, 79, 138, 31, 112, 1,49, 113, 106, 100, 65, 10, 83, 73, 26, 58, 114, 66, 126, 117, 96, 186,14, 40, 164, 158, 118, 29, 121, 151, 168, 183, 179, 16, 105, 125, 190,116, 165, 80, 64, 170, 140, 171, 173, 97, 60, 43, 123, 71, 182, 167, 95,145, 141, 187, 166, 87, 143, 15, 74, 111, 157, 32, 172, 18, 57, 35, 191,27, 47, 21, 6, 19, 155, 42, 120, 180, 37, 28, 91, 108, 7.

FIG. 144 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 144, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

139, 112, 159, 99, 87, 70, 175, 161, 51, 56, 174, 143, 12, 36, 77, 60,155, 167, 160, 73, 127, 82, 123, 145, 8, 76, 164, 178, 144, 86, 7, 124,27, 187, 130, 162, 191, 182, 16, 106, 141, 38, 72, 179, 111, 29, 59,183, 66, 52, 43, 121, 20, 11, 190, 92, 55, 166, 94, 138, 1, 122, 171,119, 109, 58, 23, 31, 163, 53, 13, 188, 100, 158, 156, 136, 34, 118,185, 10, 25, 126, 104, 30, 83, 47, 146, 63, 134, 39, 21, 44, 151, 28,22, 79, 110, 71, 90, 2, 103, 42, 35, 5, 57, 4, 0, 107, 37, 54, 18, 128,148, 129, 26, 75, 120, 19, 116, 117, 147, 114, 48, 96, 61, 46, 88, 67,135, 65, 180, 9, 74, 176, 6, 149, 49, 50, 125, 64, 169, 168, 157, 153,24, 108, 89, 98, 33, 132, 93, 40, 154, 62, 142, 41, 69, 105, 189, 115,152, 45, 133, 3, 95, 17, 186, 184, 85, 165, 32, 173, 113, 172, 78, 181,150, 170, 102, 97, 140, 81, 91, 15, 137, 101, 80, 68, 14, 177, 131, 84.

FIG. 145 is a diagram illustrating a thirty-fifth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 145, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

21, 20, 172, 86, 178, 25, 104, 133, 17, 106, 191, 68, 80, 190, 129, 29,125, 108, 147, 23, 94, 167, 27, 61, 12, 166, 131, 120, 159, 28, 7, 62,134, 59, 78, 0, 121, 149, 6, 5, 143, 171, 153, 161, 186, 35, 92, 113,55, 163, 16, 54, 93, 79, 37, 44, 75, 182, 127, 148, 179, 95, 169, 141,38, 168, 128, 56, 31, 57, 175, 140, 164, 24, 177, 88, 51, 112, 49, 185,170, 87, 32, 60, 65, 77, 89, 3, 18, 116, 184, 45, 109, 53, 160, 9, 100,8, 111, 69, 189, 36, 173, 33, 72, 144, 183, 115, 137, 98, 90, 142, 30,154, 180, 122, 155, 130, 83, 138, 14, 41, 150, 132, 70, 152, 117, 11, 4,124, 15, 42, 181, 58, 10, 22, 145, 99, 126, 107, 66, 174, 39, 13, 97,63, 123, 84, 85, 67, 76, 158, 71, 46, 118, 81, 162, 146, 135, 2, 73, 50,114, 82, 103, 188, 74, 101, 157, 151, 91, 119, 102, 48, 1, 40, 43, 64,156, 34, 110, 52, 96, 136, 139, 165, 19, 176, 187, 47, 26, 105.

FIG. 146 is a diagram of a thirty-sixth example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length. N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 146, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

160, 7, 29, 39, 110, 189, 140, 143, 163, 130, 173, 71, 191, 106, 60, 62,149, 135, 9, 147, 124, 152, 55, 116, 85, 112, 14, 20, 79, 103, 156, 167,19, 45, 73, 26, 159, 44, 86, 76, 56, 12, 109, 117, 128, 67, 150, 151,31, 27, 133, 17, 120, 153, 108, 180, 52, 187, 98, 63, 176, 186, 179,113, 161, 32, 24, 111, 41, 95, 38, 10, 154, 97, 141, 2, 127, 40, 105,34, 11, 185, 155, 61, 114, 74, 158, 162, 5, 177, 43, 51, 148, 137, 28,181, 171, 13, 104, 42, 168, 93, 172, 144, 80, 123, 89, 81, 66, 75, 78,121, 53, 65, 122, 142, 157, 107, 136, 66, 90, 23, 6, 1, 77, 54, 125,174, 35, 88, 82, 134, 101, 131, 33, 50, 87, 36, 15, 47, 83, 18, 6, 21,30, 94, 72, 145, 138, 184, 69, 84, 58, 49, 16, 48, 70, 183, 3, 92, 25,115, 0, 182, 139, 91, 146, 102, 96, 100, 119, 129, 178, 46, 37, 57, 118,126, 59, 165, 170, 190, 188, 175, 166, 99, 4, 22, 132, 164, 64, 169.

FIG. 147 is a diagram of a thirty-seventh example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 147, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

167, 97, 86, 166, 11, 57, 187, 169, 104, 102, 108, 63, 12, 181, 1, 71,134, 152, 45, 144, 124, 22, 0, 51, 100, 150, 179, 54, 66, 79, 25, 172,59, 48, 23, 55, 64, 185, 164, 123, 56, 80, 153, 9, 177, 176, 81, 17, 14,43, 76, 27, 175, 60, 133, 91, 61, 41, 111, 163, 72, 95, 84, 67, 129, 52,88, 121, 7, 49, 168, 154, 74, 138, 142, 158, 132, 127, 40, 139, 20, 44,6, 128, 75, 114, 119, 2, 8, 157, 98, 118, 89, 46, 160, 190, 5, 165, 28,68, 189, 161, 112, 173, 148, 183, 33, 131, 105, 186, 156, 70, 117, 170,174, 36, 19, 135, 125, 122, 50, 113, 141, 37, 38, 31, 94, 149, 78, 32,178, 34, 107, 13, 182, 146, 93, 10, 106, 109, 4, 77, 87, 3, 184, 83, 30,180, 96, 15, 155, 110, 145, 191, 151, 101, 65, 99, 115, 140, 26, 147,42, 136, 137, 18, 53, 116, 171, 16, 21, 92, 162, 130, 85, 69, 47, 35,82, 120, 24, 73, 39, 58, 62, 126, 29, 90, 143, 159, 188, 103.

FIG. 148 is a diagram of a thirty-eighth example of the GW pattern foran LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 148, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

74, 151, 79, 49, 174, 180, 133, 106, 116, 16, 163, 62, 164, 45, 187,128, 176, 2, 126, 136, 63, 28, 118, 173, 19, 46, 93, 121, 162, 88, 0,147, 131, 54, 117, 138, 69, 182, 68, 143, 78, 15, 7, 59, 109, 32, 10,179, 165, 90, 73, 71, 171, 135, 123, 125, 31, 22, 70, 185, 155, 60, 120,113, 41, 154, 177, 85, 64, 55, 26, 129, 84, 38, 166, 44, 30, 183, 189,191, 124, 77, 80, 98, 190, 167, 140, 52, 153, 43, 25, 188, 103, 152,137, 76, 149, 34, 172, 122, 40, 168, 141, 96, 142, 58, 110, 65, 9, 36,42, 50, 184, 105, 156, 127, 8, 61, 146, 169, 181, 5, 87, 150, 91, 17,18, 24, 112, 81, 170, 95, 29, 100, 130, 48, 159, 72, 75, 160, 27, 108,148, 66, 144, 97, 57, 115, 114, 1, 132, 4, 21, 92, 11, 107, 175, 67,145, 14, 186, 20, 51, 39, 3, 86, 89, 47, 53, 102, 82, 139, 23, 104, 157,99, 158, 12, 161, 35, 178, 37, 134, 83, 94, 101, 111, 119, 6, 33, 13,56.

FIG. 149 is a diagram of a thirty-ninth example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 149, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

20, 118, 185, 106, 82, 53, 41, 40, 121, 180, 45, 10, 145, 175, 191, 160,177, 172, 13, 29, 133, 42, 89, 51, 141, 99, 7, 134, 52, 48, 169, 162,124, 25, 165, 128, 95, 148, 98, 171, 14, 75, 59, 26, 76, 47, 34, 122,69, 131, 105, 60, 132, 63, 81, 109, 43, 189, 19, 186, 79, 62, 85, 54,16, 46, 27, 44, 139, 113, 11, 102, 130, 184, 119, 1, 152, 146, 37, 178,61, 150, 32, 163, 92, 166, 142, 67, 140, 157, 188, 18, 67, 149, 65, 183,161, 5, 31, 71, 173, 73, 15, 138, 156, 28, 66, 170, 179, 135, 86, 39,104, 17, 154, 174, 56, 153, 0, 97, 9, 72, 23, 167, 190, 80, 3, 38, 120,4, 24, 159, 12, 103, 22, 125, 83, 50, 6, 77, 168, 74, 93, 49, 57, 147,2, 155, 181, 96, 114, 107, 110, 30, 117, 127, 101, 94, 129, 35, 58, 70,126, 182, 151, 111, 91, 64, 88, 144, 137, 143, 176, 84, 136, 8, 112,123, 164, 115, 78, 36, 90, 100, 55, 108, 21, 158, 68, 33, 116, 187.

FIG. 150 is a diagram of a fortieth example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 150, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

42, 43, 190, 119, 183, 103, 51, 28, 171, 20, 18, 25, 85, 22, 157, 99,174, 5, 53, 62, 150, 128, 38, 153, 37, 148, 39, 24, 118, 102, 184, 49,111, 48, 87, 76, 81, 40, 55, 82, 70, 105, 66, 115, 14, 86, 88, 135, 168,139, 56, 80, 93, 95, 165, 13, 4, 100, 29, 104, 11, 72, 116, 83, 112, 67,186, 169, 8, 57, 44, 17, 164, 31, 96, 84, 2, 125, 59, 3, 6, 173, 149,78, 27, 160, 156, 187, 34, 129, 154, 79, 52, 117, 110, 0, 7, 113, 137,26, 47, 12, 178, 46, 136, 97, 15, 188, 101, 58, 35, 71, 32, 16, 109,163, 134, 75, 68, 98, 132, 90, 124, 189, 121, 123, 170, 158, 159, 77,108, 63, 180, 36, 74, 127, 21, 146, 147, 54, 155, 10, 144, 130, 60, 1,141, 23, 177, 133, 50, 126, 167, 151, 161, 191, 91, 114, 162, 30, 181,182, 9, 94, 69, 176, 65, 142, 152, 175, 73, 140, 41, 179, 172, 145, 64,19, 138, 131, 166, 33, 107, 185, 106, 122, 120, 92, 45, 143, 61, 89.

FIG. 151 is a diagram of a forty-first example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 151, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

111, 33, 21, 133, 18, 30, 73, 139, 125, 35, 77, 105, 122, 91, 41, 86,11, 8, 55, 71, 151, 107, 45, 12, 168, 51, 50, 59, 7, 132, 144, 16, 190,31, 108, 89, 124, 110, 94, 67, 159, 46, 140, 87, 54, 142, 185, 85, 84,120, 178, 101, 180, 20, 174, 47, 28, 145, 70, 24, 131, 4, 83, 56, 79,37, 27, 109, 92, 52, 96, 177, 141, 188, 155, 38, 156, 169, 136, 81, 137,112, 95, 93, 106, 149, 138, 15, 39, 170, 146, 103, 184, 43, 5, 9, 189,34, 19, 63, 90, 36, 23, 78, 100, 75, 162, 42, 161, 119, 64, 65, 152, 62,173, 104, 88, 118, 48, 44, 40, 60, 102, 61, 74, 99, 53, 10, 6, 172, 186,163, 134, 14, 148, 3, 26, 1, 157, 150, 25, 123, 115, 116, 57, 175, 127,82, 117, 114, 160, 164, 153, 176, 76, 13, 181, 68, 128, 0, 183, 49, 22,166, 17, 191, 135, 165, 72, 158, 130, 154, 167, 66, 2, 147, 69, 58, 98,97, 143, 32, 29, 179, 113, 80, 182, 129, 126, 171, 121, 187.

FIG. 152 is a diagram of a forty-second example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 152, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

148, 32, 94, 31, 146, 15, 41, 7, 79, 58, 52, 167, 154, 4, 161, 38, 64,127, 131, 78, 34, 125, 171, 173, 133, 122, 50, 95, 129, 57, 71, 37, 137,69, 82, 107, 26, 10, 140, 156, 47, 178, 163, 117, 139, 174, 143, 138,111, 11, 166, 43, 141, 114, 45, 39, 177, 103, 96, 123, 63, 23, 18, 20,187, 27, 66, 130, 65, 142, 5, 135, 113, 90, 121, 54, 190, 134, 153, 147,92, 157, 3, 97, 102, 106, 172, 91, 46, 89, 56, 184, 115, 99, 62, 93,100, 88, 152, 109, 124, 182, 70, 74, 159, 165, 60, 183, 185, 164, 175,108, 176, 2, 118, 72, 151, 0, 51, 33, 28, 80, 14, 128, 179, 84, 77, 42,55, 160, 119, 110, 86, 22, 101, 13, 170, 36, 104, 189, 191, 169, 112,12, 29, 30, 162, 136, 24, 68, 9, 81, 120, 145, 180, 144, 73, 21, 44, 1,16, 67, 19, 158, 188, 181, 61, 35, 8, 53, 168, 150, 105, 59, 87, 6, 126,75, 85, 17, 83, 98, 48, 132, 40, 76, 49, 25, 149, 186, 155, 116.

FIG. 153 is a diagram illustrating a forty-third example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 153, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

161, 38, 41, 138, 20, 24, 14, 35, 32, 179, 68, 97, 94, 142, 43, 53, 22,28, 44, 81, 148, 187, 169, 89, 115, 144, 75, 40, 31, 152, 30, 124, 80,135, 160, 8, 129, 147, 60, 112, 171, 0, 133, 100, 156, 180, 77, 110,151, 69, 95, 25, 117, 127, 154, 64, 146, 143, 29, 168, 177, 183, 126,10, 26, 3, 50, 92, 164, 163, 11, 109, 21, 37, 84, 122, 49, 71, 52, 15,88, 149, 86, 61, 90, 155, 162, 9, 153, 67, 119, 189, 82, 131, 190, 4,46, 118, 47, 178, 59, 150, 186, 123, 18, 79, 57, 120, 70, 62, 137, 23,185, 167, 175, 16, 134, 73, 139, 166, 55, 165, 116, 76, 99, 182, 78, 93,141, 33, 176, 101, 130, 58, 12, 17, 132, 45, 102, 7, 19, 145, 54, 91,113, 36, 27, 114, 174, 39, 83, 140, 191, 74, 56, 87, 48, 158, 121, 159,136, 63, 181, 34, 173, 103, 42, 125, 104, 107, 96, 65, 1, 13, 157, 184,170, 105, 188, 108, 6, 2, 98, 72, 5, 66, 128, 106, 172, 111, 85, 51.

FIG. 154 is a diagram of a forty-fourth example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 154, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

57, 73, 173, 63, 179, 186, 148, 181, 160, 163, 4, 109, 137, 99, 118, 15,5, 115, 44, 153, 185, 40, 12, 169, 2, 37, 188, 97, 65, 67, 117, 90, 66,135, 154, 159, 146, 86, 61, 182, 59, 83, 91, 175, 58, 138, 93, 43, 98,22, 152, 96, 45, 120, 180, 10, 116, 170, 162, 68, 3, 13, 41, 131, 21,172, 55, 24, 1, 79, 106, 189, 52, 184, 112, 53, 136, 166, 29, 62, 107,128, 71, 111, 187, 161, 101, 49, 155, 28, 94, 70, 48, 0, 33, 157, 151,25, 89, 88, 114, 134, 75, 87, 142, 6, 27, 64, 69, 19, 150, 130, 127, 76,102, 123, 158, 129, 133, 110, 141, 95, 7, 126, 85, 108, 174, 190, 165,156, 171, 54, 17, 121, 103, 14, 36, 105, 82, 8, 178, 51, 23, 84, 167,30, 100, 42, 72, 149, 92, 77, 104, 183, 39, 125, 80, 143, 144, 56, 119,16, 132, 139, 191, 50, 164, 122, 46, 140, 31, 176, 60, 26, 32, 11, 177,124, 74, 145, 20, 34, 18, 81, 168, 9, 78, 113, 147, 47.

FIG. 155 is a diagram of a forty-fifth example of the GW pattern for anLDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits.

According to the GW pattern in FIG. 155, the sequence of bit groups 0 to191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

89, 123, 13, 47, 178, 159, 1, 190, 53, 12, 57, 109, 115, 19, 36, 143,82, 96, 163, 66, 154, 173, 49, 65, 131, 2, 78, 15, 155, 90, 38, 130, 63,188, 138, 184, 166, 102, 139, 28, 50, 186, 17, 20, 112, 41, 11, 8, 59,79, 45, 162, 146, 40, 43, 129, 119, 18, 157, 37, 126, 124, 110, 191, 85,165, 60, 142, 135, 74, 187, 179, 141, 164, 34, 69, 26, 33, 113, 120, 95,169, 30, 0, 175, 70, 91, 104, 140, 25, 132, 23, 105, 158, 171, 6, 121,56, 22, 127, 54, 68, 107, 133, 84, 81, 150, 99, 73, 185, 67, 29, 151,87, 10, 167, 148, 72, 147, 5, 31, 125, 145, 4, 52, 44, 134, 83, 46, 75,152, 62, 7, 86, 172, 180, 111, 61, 9, 58, 14, 116, 92, 170, 93, 77, 88,42, 21, 106, 97, 144, 182, 108, 55, 94, 122, 114, 153, 64, 24, 80, 117,3, 177, 149, 76, 128, 136, 39, 181, 160, 103, 174, 156, 27, 183, 16,137, 101, 161, 176, 35, 118, 98, 168, 48, 100, 71, 189, 32, 51.

The first to forty-fifth examples of the GW pattern for the LDPC codewith the code length N of 69120 bits can be applied to any combinationof the LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and an arbitrarycoding rate r, an arbitrary modulation method, and an arbitraryconstellation.

Note that, as for the group-wise interleaving, the applied GW pattern isset for each combination of the code length. N of the LDPC code, thecoding rate r of the LDPC code, the modulation method, and theconstellation, whereby the error rate can be further improved for eachcombination.

The GW pattern in FIG. 111 is applies to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code (corresponding to the parity check matrix initial valuetable) with N=69120 and r=2/16 in FIG. 30 (the LDPC code with the codelength N of 69120 and the coding rate r of 2/16), QPSK, and QPSK-UC inFIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 112 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=3/16 in FIGS. 31 and 32, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 113 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=4/16 in FIG. 33, QPSK, and QPSK-UC inFIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 114 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=5/16 in FIGS. 34 and 35, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 115 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=6/16 in FIGS. 36 and 37, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 116 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=7/16 in FIGS. 38 and 39, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 117 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=8/16 in FIGS. 46 and 47, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 118 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=9/16 in FIGS. 50 to 52, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 119 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=10/16 in FIGS. 56 to 58, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 120 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=11/16 in FIGS. 62 to 64, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 121 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=12/16 in FIGS. 68 to 70, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 122 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=13/16 in FIGS. 74 to 76, QPSK andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 123 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=14/16 in FIGS. 80 to 82, QPSK, andQPSK-UC in FIGS. 96 and 97, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 124 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=3/16 in FIGS. 31 and 32, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 125 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=5/16 in FIGS. 34 and 35, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 126 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=7/16 in FIGS. 38 and 39, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 127 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=9/16 in FIGS. 50 to 52, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 128 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=11/16 in FIGS. 62 to 64, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 129 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=13/16 in FIGS. 74 to 76, 16 QAM, and 16QAM-UC in FIGS. 98 and 99, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 130 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=2/16 in FIG. 30, 64 QAM, and 64 QAM-UCin FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorable errorrate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 131 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=4/16 in FIG. 33, 64 QAM, and 64 QAM-UCin FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorable errorrate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 132 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=6/16 in FIGS. 36 and 37, 64 QAM, and 64QAM-UC in FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 133 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=8/16 in FIGS. 46 and 47, 64 QAM, and 64QAM-UC in FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 134 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=10/16 in FIGS. 56 to 58, 64 QAM, and 64QAM-UC in FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 135 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=12/16 in FIGS. 68 to 70, 64 QAM, and 64QAM-UC in FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 136 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=14/16 in FIGS. 80 to 82, 64 QAM, and 64QAM-UC in FIGS. 100 and 101, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 137 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=3/16 in FIGS. 31 and 32, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 138 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=5/16 in FIGS. 34 and 35, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 139 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=7/16 in FIGS. 38 and 39, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 140 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=9/16 in FIGS. 50 to 52, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 141 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=11/16 in FIGS. 62 and 64, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 142 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=13/16 in FIGS. 74 to 76, 256 QAM, and256 QAM-UC in FIGS. 102 and 103, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 143 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=2/16 in FIG. 30, 1024 QAM, and 1024QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 144 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=4/16 in FIG. 33, 1024 QAM, and 1024QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularly favorableerror rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 145 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=6/16 in FIGS. 36 and 37, 1024 QAM, and1024 QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 146 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=8/16 in FIGS. 46 and 47, 1024 QAM, and1024 QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 147 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=10/16 in FIGS. 56 to 58, 1024 QAM, and1024 QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 148 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=12/16 in FIGS. 68 to 70, 1024 QAM, and1024 QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 149 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=14/16 in FIGS. 80 to 82, 1024 QAM, and1024 QAM-UC in FIGS. 104 and 105, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 150 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=3/16 in FIGS. 31 and 32, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 151 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=5/16 in FIGS. 34 and 35, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 152 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=7/16 in FIGS. 38 and 39, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 153 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=9/16 in FIGS. 50 to 52, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 154 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=11/16 in FIGS. 62 to 64, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

The GW pattern in FIG. 155 is applied to, for example, a combination ofthe LDPC code with N=69120 and r=13/16 in FIGS. 74 to 76, 4096 QAM, and4096 QAM-UC in FIGS. 106 and 107, thereby achieving a particularlyfavorable error rate.

<Configuration Example of Reception Device 12>

FIG. 156 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of thereception device 12 in FIG. 7.

An OFDM processing unit (OFDM operation) 151 receives an OFDM signalfrom the transmission device 11 (FIG. 7) and performs signal processingfor the OFDM signal. Data obtained by performing the signal processingby the OFDM processing unit 151 is supplied to a frame management unit152.

The frame management, unit 152 processes (frames interprets) a frameconfigured by the data supplied from the OFDM processing unit 151, andsupplies a signal of resulting target data and a signal of control datato frequency deinterleavers 161 and 153, respectively.

The frequency deinterleaver 153 performs frequency deinterleaving insymbol units for the data from the frame management unit 152, andsupplies the data to a demapper 154.

The demapper 154 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding)and quadrature demodulation for the data (data on the constellation)from the frequency deinterleaver 153 on the basis of arrangement(constellation) of the signal points determined by the quadraturemodulation performed on the transmission device 11 side, and suppliesresulting data ((likelihood) of the LDPC code) to an LDPC decoder 155.

The LDPC decoder 155 performs LDPC decoding for the LDPC code from thedemapper 154, and supplies resulting LDPC target data (here, BCH code)to a BCH decoder 156.

The BCH decoder 156 performs BCH decoding for the LDPC target data fromthe LDPC decoder 155, and outputs resulting control data (signaling).

Meanwhile, the frequency deinterleaver 161 performs frequencydeinterleaving in symbol units for the data from the frame managementunit 152, and supplies the data to the SISO/MISO decoder 162.

The SISO/MISO decoder 162 performs space-time decoding of the data fromthe frequency deinterleaver 161 and supplies the data to a timedeinterleaver 163.

The time deinterleaver 163 deinterleaves the data from the SISO/MISOdecoder 162 in symbol units and supplies the data to a demapper 164.

The demapper 164 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding)and quadrature demodulation for the data (data on the constellation)from the time deinterleaver 163 on the basis of arrangement(constellation) of the signal points determined by the quadraturemodulation performed on the transmission device 11 side, and suppliesresulting data to a bit deinterleaver 165.

The bit deinterleaver 165 performs bit deinterleaving for the data fromthe demapper 164, and supplies (likelihood of) the LDPC code that isdata after the bit deinterleaving to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding for the LDPC code from thebit deinterleaver 165, and supplies resulting LDPC target data (here,the BCH code) to the BCH decoder 167.

The BCH decoder 167 performs BCH decoding for the LDPC target data fromthe LDPC decoder 155, and supplies resulting data to a BB descrambler168.

The BB descrambler 168 applies BB descrambling to the data from the BCHdecoder 167, and supplies resulting data to a null deletion unit 169.

The null deletion unit 169 deletes the null inserted by the gadder 112in FIG. 8 from the data from the BB descrambler 168, and supplies thedata to the demultiplexer 170.

The demultiplexer 170 demultiplexes each of one or more streams (targetdata) multiplexed into the data from the null deletion unit 169, appliesnecessary processing, and outputs a result as an output stream.

Note that the reception device 12 can be configured without including apart of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 156. In other words, in a casewhere the transmission device 11 (FIG. 8) is configured withoutincluding the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, thefrequency interleaver 120, and the frequency interleaver 124, forexample, the reception device 12 can be configured without including thetime deinterleaver 163, the SISO/MISO decoder 162, the frequencydeinterleaver 161, and the frequency deinterleaver 153 which are blocksrespectively corresponding to the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISOencoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120, and the frequencyinterleaver 124 of the transmission device 11.

<Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 157 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of thebit deinterleaver 165 in FIG. 156.

The bit deinterleaver 165 is configured by the block deinterleaver 54and the group-wise deinterleaver 55, and performs (bit) deinterleavingof a symbol bit of a symbol that is the data from the demapper 164 (FIG.156).

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs, for the symbol bitof the symbol from demapper 164, block deinterleaving corresponding tothe block interleaving performed by the block interleaver 25 in FIG. 9(processing reverse to the block interleaving), in other words, blockdeinterleaving of returning the positions of (the likelihood of) thecode bits of the LDPC code permutated by the block interleaving to theoriginal positions, and supplies a resulting LDPC code to the group-wisedeinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs, for example, for the LDPC codefrom the block deinterleaver 54, group-wise deinterleaving correspondingto the group-wise interleaving performed by the group-wise interleaver24 in FIG. 9 (processing reverse to the group-wise interleaving), inother words, group-wise deinterleaving of rearranging, in units of bitgroups, the sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code changed in unitsof bit groups by the group-wise interleaving described in FIG. 110 toreturn to the original sequence.

Here, in a case where the parity interleaving, the group-wiseinterleaving, and the block interleaving have been applied to the LDPCcode to be supplied from the demapper 164 to the bit deinterleaver 165,the bit deinterleaver 165 can perform all of parity deinterleavingcorresponding to the parity interleaving (processing reverse to theparity interleaving, in other words, parity deinterleaving of returningthe sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code changed by the parityinterleaving to the original sequence, the block deinterleavingcorresponding to the block interleaving, and the group-wisedeinterleaving corresponding to the group-wise interleaving.

Note that the bit deinterleaver 165 in FIG. 157 is provided with theblock deinterleaver 54 for performing the block deinterleavingcorresponding to the block interleaving, and the group-wisedeinterleaver 55 for performing the group-wise deinterleavingcorresponding to the group-wise interleaving, but the bit deinterleaver165 is not provided with a block for performing the paritydeinterleaving corresponding to the parity interleaving, and does notperform the parity deinterleaving.

Therefore, the LDPC code for which the block deinterleaving and thegroup-wise deinterleaving are performed and the parity deinterleaving isnot performed is supplied from (the group-wise deinterleaver 55 of) thebit deinterleaver 165 to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding for the LDPC code from thebit deinterleaver 165, using a transformed parity check matrix obtainedby performing at least column permutation corresponding to the parityinterleaving for the parity check matrix H by the type B method used forthe LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 8, or a transformedparity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing row permutation forthe parity check matrix (FIG. 27) by the type A method, and outputsresulting data as a decoding result of the LDPC target data.

FIG. 158 is a flowchart for describing processing performed by thedemapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165, and the LDPC decoder 166 inFIG. 157.

In step S111, the demapper 164 performs demapping and quadraturedemodulation for the data from the time deinterleaver 163 (the data onthe constellation mapped to the signal points) and supplies the data tothe bit deinterleaver 165. The processing proceeds to step S112.

In step S112, the bit deinterleaver 165 deinterleaves (bitdeinterleaves) the data from the demapper 164. The process proceeds tostep S113.

In other words, in step S112, in the bit deinterleaver 165, the blockdeinterleaver 54 block deinterleaves the data (symbol) from the demapper164, and supplies code bits of a resulting LDPC code to the group-wisedeinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 group-wise deinterleaves the LDPC codefrom the block deinterleaver 54, and supplies (the likelihood of) theresulting LDPC code to the LDPC decoder 166.

In step S113, the LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding for the LDPCcode from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 using the parity check matrixH used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 in FIG. 8, in otherwords, the transformed parity check matrix obtained from the paritycheck matrix H, for example, and supplies resulting data as a decodingresult of the LDPC target data to the BCH decoder 167.

Note that, even in FIG. 157, the block deinterleaver 54 for performingthe block deinterleaving and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 forperforming the group-wise deinterleaving are separately configured, asin the case in FIG. 9, for convenience of description. However, theblock deinterleaver 54 and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 can beintegrally configured.

Furthermore, in a case where the group-wise interleaving is notperformed in the transmission device 11, the reception device 12 can beconfigured without including the group-wise deinterleaver 55 forperforming the group-wise deinterleaving.

<LDPC Decoding>

The LDPC decoding performed by the LDPC decoder 166 in FIG. 156 will befurther described.

The LDPC decoder 166 in FIG. 156 performs the LDPC decoding for the LDPCcode from the group-wise deinterleaver 55, for which the blockdeinterleaving and the group-wise deinterleaving have been performed andthe parity deinterleaving has not been performed, using a transformedparity check matrix obtained by performing at least column permutationcorresponding to the parity interleaving for the parity check matrix Hby the type B method used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 inFIG. 8, or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained byperforming row permutation for the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) by thetype A method.

Here, LDPC decoding for enabling suppression of a circuit scale andsuppression of an operation frequency within a sufficiently feasiblerange by being performed using a transformed parity check matrix hasbeen previously proposed (for example, see U.S. Pat. No. 4,224,777).

Therefore, first, the LDPC decoding using a transformed parity checkmatrix, which has been previously proposed, will be described withreference to FIGS. 159 to 162.

FIG. 159 is a diagram illustrating an example of a parity check matrix Hof an LDPC code with a code length N of 90 and a coding rate of 2/3.

Note that, in FIG. 159 (similarly performed in FIGS. 160 and 161described below), 0 is represented by a period (.).

In the parity check matrix H in FIG. 159, the parity matrix has a stepstructure.

FIG. 160 is a diagram illustrating a parity check matrix H′ obtained byapplying row permutation of the expression (11) and column permutationof the expression (12) to the parity check matrix H in FIG. 159.

Row permutation: (6s+t+1)th row→(5t+s+1)th row   (11)

Column permutation: (6x+y+61)th→column→(5y+x+61)th column   (12)

Note that, in the expressions (11) and (12), s, t, x, and y are integersin ranges of 0≤s<5, 0≤t<6, 0≤x<5, and 0≤t<6, respectively.

According to the row permutation of the expression (11), permutation isperformed in such a manner that the 1, 7, 13, 19, and 25th rows wherethe remainder becomes 1 when being divided by 6 are respectivelypermutated to the 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5th rows, and the 2, 8, 14, 20, and26th rows where the remainder becomes 2 when being divided by 6 arerespectively permutated to the 6, 7, 6 9, and 10th rows.

Furthermore, according to the column permutation of the expression (12),permutation is performed for the 61st column and subsequent columns(parity matrix) in such a manner that the 61, 67, 73, 79, and 85thcolumns where the remainder becomes 1 when being divided by 6 arerespectively permutated to the 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65th columns, and the62, 68, 74, 80, and 86th columns where the remainder becomes 2 whenbeing divided by 6 are respectively permutated to the 66, 67, 68, 69,and 70th columns.

A matrix obtained by performing the row and column permutation for theparity check matrix H in FIG. 159 is the parity check matrix H′ in FIG.160.

Here, the row permutation of the parity check matrix H does not affectthe sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code.

Furthermore, the column permutation of the expression (12) correspondsto parity interleaving with the information length K of 60, the unitsize P of 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M (30 here)of 6, of the parity interleaving of interleaving the (K+Qx+y+1)th codebit at a position of the (K+Py+x+1)th code bit.

Therefore, the parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 160 is a transformedparity check matrix obtained by performing at least the columnpermutation of permutating the (K+qx+y+1)th column to the (K+Py+x+1)thcolumn, of the parity check matrix (hereinafter referred to as originalparity check matrix as appropriate) H in FIG. 159.

By multiplying the transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 160 by aresultant obtained by performing the same permutation as the expression(12) for the LDPC code of the original parity check matrix H in FIG.159, a 0 vector is output. In other words, assuming that a row vectorobtained by applying the column permutation of the expression (12) tothe row vector c as the LDPC code (one codeword) of the original paritycheck matrix H is represented by c′, H′c′^(T) naturally becomes a 0vector because Hc^(T) becomes a 0 vector from the nature of the paritycheck matrix.

From the above, the transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 160 is aparity check matrix of the LDPC code c′ obtained by performing thecolumn permutation of the expression (12) for the LDPC code c of theoriginal parity check matrix H.

Therefore, a similar decoding result to the case of decoding the LDPCcode of the original parity check matrix H using the parity check matrixH can be obtained by performing the column permutation of the expression(12) for the LDPC code c of the original parity check matrix H, decoding(LDPC decoding) the LDPC code c′ after the column permutation using thetransformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 160, and applying reversepermutation to the column permutation of the expression (12) to thedecoding result.

FIG. 161 is a diagram illustrating the transformed parity check matrixH′ in FIG. 160, which is separated in units of 5×5 matrix.

In FIG. 161, the transformed parity check matrix H′ is represented by acombination of an identity matrix of 5×5 (=P×P) as the unit size P, amatrix where one or more of is in the identity matrix become 0(hereinafter, the matrix is referred to as quasi identity matrix), amatrix obtained by cyclically shifting the identity matrix or the quasiidentity matrix (hereinafter the matrix is referred to as shift matrixas appropriate), and a sum of two or more of the identity matrix, thequasi identity matrix, and the shift matrix (hereinafter, the matrix isreferred to as sum matrix as appropriate), and a 5×5 zero matrix.

It can be said that the transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161is configured by the 5×5 identity matrix, the quasi identity matrix, theshift matrix, the sum matrix, and the 0 matrix. Therefore, these 5×5matrices (the identity matrix, the quasi identity matrix, the shiftmatrix, the sum matrix, and the 0 matrix) constituting the transformedparity check matrix H′ are hereinafter referred to as configurationmatrices as appropriate.

For decoding of an LDPC code of a parity check matrix represented by P×Pconfiguration matrices, an architecture that simultaneously performs Pcheck node operations and variable node operations can be used.

FIG. 162 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of adecoding device that performs such decoding.

In other words, FIG. 162 illustrates a configuration example of adecoding device that decodes the LDPC code using the transformed paritycheck matrix H′ in FIG. 161 obtained by performing at least the columnpermutation of the expression (12) for the original parity check matrixH in FIG. 159.

The decoding device in FIG. 162 includes an edge data storage memory 300including six FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a selector 301 for selecting theFIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a check node calculation unit 302, two cyclicshift circuits 303 and 308, an edge data storage memory 304 includingeighteen FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a selector 305 for selecting the FIFOs304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a received data memory 306 for storing received data, avariable node calculation unit 307, a decoded word calculation unit 309,a received data rearrangement unit 310, and a decoded data rearrangementunit 311.

First, a method of storing data in the edge data storage memories 300and 304 will be described.

The edge data storage memory 300 is configured by the six FIFOs 300 ₁ to300 ₆, the six corresponding to a number obtained by dividing the numberof rows of 30 of the transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161 bythe number of rows (unit size P) of 5 of the configuration matrix. TheFIFO 300 _(y) (y=1, 2, . . . , 6) includes storage areas of a pluralityof stages, and messages corresponding to five edges, the fivecorresponding to the number of rows and the number of columns (unit sizeP) of the configuration matrix, can be read and written at the same timewith respect to the storage areas of the respective stages. Furthermore,the number of stages of the storage areas of the FIFO 300, is nine thatis the maximum value of the number of is (Hamming weights) in the rowdirection of the transformed parity check matrix in FIG. 161.

In the FIFO 300 ₁, data (message v_(i) from the variable node)corresponding to the positions of 1 of the 1st to 5th rows of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161 are stored close to eachother (ignoring 0) for each row in the cross direction. In other words,data corresponding to the positions of 1 of the 5×5 identity matrix offrom (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ isstored in the storage area of the first stage of the FIFO 300 ₁, where jrows by i columns is represented by (j, i). Data corresponding to thepositions of 1 of the shift matrix of from (1, 21) to (5, 25) of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ (the shift matrix obtained bycyclically shifting the 5×5 identity matrix by three in the rightdirection) is stored in the storage area of the second stage. Data isstored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′,similarly in the storage areas of the third to eighth stages. Then, datacorresponding to the positions of 1 of the shift matrix of from (1, 86)to (5, 90) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ (the shift matrixobtained by replacing I in the 1st row of the 5×5 identity matrix to 0and cyclically shifting the identity matrix by 1 in the left direction)is stored in the storage area of the ninth stage.

Data corresponding to the positions of 1 of from the 6th to 10th rows ofthe transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161 is stored in the FIFO300 ₂. In other words, data corresponding to the positions of 1 of afirst shift matrix constituting the sum matrix of from (6, 1) to (10, 5)of the transformed parity check matrix H′ (the sum matrix that is a sumof the first shift matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5identity matrix by 1 to the right and a second shift matrix obtained bycyclically shifting the 5×5 identity matrix by 2 to the right) is storedin the storage area of the first stage of the FIFO 300 ₂. Furthermore,data corresponding to the positions of 1 of the second shift matrixconstituting the sum matrix of from (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformedparity check matrix H′ is stored in the storage area of the secondstage.

In other words, in regard to the configuration matrix with the weight of2 or more, when the configuration matrix is expressed in a form of a sumof some matrices of a P×P identity matrix with the weight of 1, a quasiidentity matrix in which one or more of the elements of 1 of theidentity matrix are 0, and a shift matrix obtained by cyclicallyshifting the identity matrix or the quasi identity matrix, the data(message corresponding to an edge belonging to the identity matrix, thequasi identity matrix, or the shift matrix) corresponding to a positionof 1 of the identity matrix with the weight of 1, the quasi identitymatrix, or the shift matrix, is stored in the same address (the sameFIFO of FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆).

Hereinafter, data is stored in association with the transformed paritycheck matrix H′, similarly in the storage areas of the third to ninthstages.

Data are similarly stored in the FIFOs 300 ₃ to 300 ₆ in associationwith the transformed parity check matrix H′.

The edge data storage memory 304 is configured by the eighteen FIFOs 304₁ to 304 ₁₈, the eighteen corresponding to a number obtained by dividingthe number of columns of 90 of the transformed parity check matrix H′ bythe number of columns (unit size P) of 5 of the configuration matrix.The FIFO 304, (x=1, 2, . . . , 18) includes storage areas of a pluralityof stages, and messages corresponding to five edges, the fivecorresponding to the number of rows and the number of columns (unit sizeP) of the configuration matrix, can be read and written at the same timewith respect to the storage areas of the respective stages.

In the FIFO 304 ₁, data (message u_(j) from the check node)corresponding to the positions of 1 of the 1st to 5th columns of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161 are stored close to eachother (ignoring 0) for each column in the vertical direction. In otherwords, data corresponding to the positions of 1 of the 5×5 identitymatrix of from (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformed parity check matrixH′ is stored in the storage area of the first stage of the FIFO 304 ₁.Data corresponding to the positions of 1 of a first shift matrixconstituting the sum matrix of from (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformedparity check matrix H′ (the sum matrix that is a sum of the first shiftmatrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 identity matrix by 1 tothe right and a second shift matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the5×5 identity matrix by 2 to the right) is stored in the storage area ofthe second stage. Furthermore, data corresponding to the positions of 1of the second shift matrix constituting the sum matrix of from (6, 1) to(10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored in thestorage area of the third stage.

In other words, in regard to the configuration matrix with the weight of2 or more, when the configuration matrix is expressed in a form of a sumof some matrices of a P×P identity matrix with the weight of 1, a quasiidentity matrix in which one or more of the elements of 1 of theidentity matrix are 0, and a shift matrix obtained by cyclicallyshifting the identity matrix or the quasi identity matrix, the data(message corresponding to an edge belonging to the identity matrix, thequasi identity matrix, or the shift matrix) corresponding to theposition of 1 of the identity matrix with the weight of 1, the quasiidentity matrix, or the shift matrix is stored in the same address (thesame FIFO of FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈).

Hereinafter, data is stored in association with the transformed paritycheck matrix H′, similarly in the storage areas of the fourth and fifthstages. The number of stages of the storage areas of the FIFO 304 ₁ isfive that is the maximum value of the number of is (Hamming weights) inthe row direction in the 1st to 5th columns of the transformed paritycheck matrix H′.

Data is similarly stored in the FIFOs 304 ₂ and 304 ₃ in associationwith the transformed parity check matrix H′, and respective lengths(stages) are five. Data is similarly stored in the FIFOs 304 ₄ and 304₁₂ in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, andrespective lengths are three. Data is similarly stored in the FIFOs 304₁₃ and 304 ₁₈ in association with the transformed parity check matrixH′, and respective lengths are two.

Next, the operation of the decoding device in FIG. 162 will bedescribed.

The edge data storage memory 300 includes six FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, andselects FIFO to store data from among the six FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆according to information (Matrix data) D312 indicating which row of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 161 five messages D311supplied from the previous cyclic shift circuit 308 belong to, andcollectively stores the five messages D311 to the selected FIFO inorder. Furthermore, in reading data, the edge data storage memory 300sequentially reads the five messages D300 ₁ from the FIFO 300 ₁ andsupplies the read messages to the next-stage selector 301. The edge datastorage memory 300 sequentially reads the messages from the FIFOs 300 ₂to 300 ₆ after completion of the reading of the message from the FIFO300 ₁, and supplies the messages to the selector 301.

The selector 301 selects the five messages from the FIFO currently beingread out, of the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, according to a select signalD301, and supplies the messages as message D302 to the check nodecalculation unit 302.

The check node calculation unit 302 includes five check node calculators302 ₁ to 302 ⁵, and performs the check node operation according to theexpression (7), using the message D302 (D302 ₁ to D302 ₅) (the messagev_(i) of the expression (7)) supplied through the selector 301, andsupplies five messages D303 (D303 ₁ to D303 ₅) obtained as a result ofthe check node operation (message u_(j) of the expression (7)) to thecyclic shift circuit 303.

The cyclic shift circuit 303 cyclically shifts the five messages D303 ₁to D303 ₅ obtained by the check node calculation unit 302, on the basisof information (Matrix data) D305 indicating how many identity matrices(or quasi identity matrices), which are the basis off the transformedparity check matrix H′, have been cyclically shifted for thecorresponding edge, and supplies a result as a message D304 to the edgedata storage memory 304.

The edge data storage memory 304 includes eighteen FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304₁₈, and selects FIFO to store data from among the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈according to information D305 indicating which row of the transformedparity check matrix H′ five messages D304 supplied from the previouscyclic shift circuit 303 belong to, and collectively stores the fivemessages D304 to the selected FIFO in order. Furthermore, in readingdata, the edge data storage memory 304 sequentially reads five messagesD306 ₁ from the FIFO 304 ₁ and supplies the read messages to thenext-stage selector 305. The edge data storage memory 304 sequentiallyreads the messages from the FIFOs 304 ₂ to 304 ₁₈ after completion ofthe reading of the message from the FIFO 304 ₁, and supplies themessages to the selector 305.

The selector 305 selects the five messages from the FIFO currently beingread out, of the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, according to a select signalD307, and supplies the messages as message D308 to the variable nodecalculation unit 307 and the decoded word calculation unit 309.

Meanwhile, the received data rearrangement unit 310 rearranges the LDPCcode D313 corresponding to the parity check matrix H in FIG. 159, whichhas been received via the communication path 13, by performing thecolumn permutation of the expression (12), and supplies data as receiveddata D314 to the received data memory 306. The received data memory 306calculates and stored received LLR (log likelihood ratio) from thereceived data D314 supplied from the received data rearrangement unit310, and groups five received LLRs and collectively supplies the fivereceived LLRs as a received value D309 to the variable node calculationunit 307 and the decoded word calculation unit 309.

The variable node calculation unit 307 includes five variable nodecalculators 307 ₁ to 307 ₅, and performs the variable node operationaccording to the expression (1), using the message D308 (D308 ₁ to D308₅) (message u_(j) of the expression (1)) supplied via the selector 305,and the five received values D309 (received value u_(0i) of theexpression (1))) supplied from the received data memory 306, andsupplies a message D310 (D310 ₁ to D310 ₅) (message v_(i) of theexpression (1))) obtained as a result of the operation to the cyclicshift circuit 308.

The cyclic shift circuit 308 cyclically shifts the messages D310 ₁ toD310 ₅ calculated by the variable node calculation unit 307, on thebasis of information indicating how many identity matrices (or quasiidentity matrices), which are the basis of the transformed parity checkmatrix H′, have been cyclically shifted for the corresponding edge, andsupplies a result as a message D311 to the edge data storage memory 300.

By one round of the above operation, one decoding (variable nodeoperation and check node operation) of the LDPC code can be performed.After decoding the LDPC code a predetermined number of times, thedecoding device an FIG. 162 obtains and outputs a final decoding resultin the decoded word calculation unit 309 and the decoded datarearrangement unit 311.

In other words, the decoded word calculation unit 309 includes fivedecoded word calculators 309 ₁ to 309 ₅, and as a final stage of theplurality of times of decoding, calculates the decoding result (decodedword) on the basis of the expression (5), using the five messages D308(D308 ₁ to D308 ₅) message u_(j) of the expression (5)) output by theselector 305, and the five received values D309 (received value u_(0i)of the expression (5)) supplied from the received data memory 306, andsupplies resulting decoded data D315 to the decoded data rearrangementunit 311.

The decoded data rearrangement unit 311 rearranges the decoded data D315supplied from the decoded word calculation unit 309 by performingreverse permutation to the column permutation of the expression (12),and outputs a final decoding result D316.

As described above, by applying at least one or both of the rowpermutation and the column permutation to the parity check matrix(original parity check matrix) to convert the parity check matrix into aparity check matrix (transformed parity check matrix) that can berepresented by a combination of a P×P identity matrix, a quasi identitymatrix in which one or more of the elements of 1 in the identity matrixare 0, a shift matrix in which the identity matrix or the quasi identitymatrix is cyclically shifted, a sum matrix that is a sum of two or moreof the identity matrix, the quasi identity matrix, and the shift matrix,and a P×P zero matrix, in other words, by a combination of theconfiguration matrices, an architecture to perform P check nodeoperations and variable node operations at the same time for decoding ofthe LDPC code, the P being a number smaller than the number of rows andthe number of columns of the parity check matrix, can be adopted. In thecase of adopting the architecture to perform P node operations (checknode operations and variable node operations) at the same time, the Pbeing the number smaller than the number of rows and the number ofcolumns of the parity check matrix, a large number of repetitivedecodings can be performed while suppressing the operation frequency tothe feasible range, as compared with a case or performing the number ofnode operations at the same time, the number being equal to the numberof rows and the number of columns of the parity check matrix.

The LDPC decoder 166 that configures the reception device 12 in FIG. 156performs the P check node operations and variable node operations at thesame time, for example, similarly to the decoding device in FIG. 162,thereby performing the LDPC decoding.

In other words, to simplify the description, assuming that the paritycheck matrix of the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 thatconfigures the transmission device 11 in FIG. 8 is the parity checkmatrix H with the parity matrix having a step structure, as illustratedin FIG. 159, for example, the parity interleaver 23 of the transmissiondevice 11 performs the parity interleaving in which the (K+Qx+y+1)thcode bit is interleaved to the position of the (K+Py+x+1)th code bit,with the setting of the information length K of 60, the unit size P of5, the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M of 6.

Since this parity interleaving corresponds to the column permutation ofthe expression (12) as described above, the LDPC decoder 166 does notneed to perform the column permutation of the expression (12).

Therefore, the reception device 12 in FIG. 156 performs similarprocessing to the decoding device in FIG. 162 except that the LDPC codefor which the parity deinterleaving has not been performed, in otherwords, the LDPC code in the state where the column permutation by theexpression (12) has been performed is supplied from the group-wisedeinterleaver 55 to the LDPC decoder 166, as described above, and theLDPC decoder 166 does not perform the column permutation of theexpression (12).

In other words, FIG. 163 is a diagram illustrating a configurationexample of the LDPC decoder 166 in FIG. 156.

In FIG. 163, the LDPC decoder 166 is similarly configured to thedecoding device in FIG. 162 except that the received data rearrangementunit 310 in FIG. 162 is not provided, and performs similar processing tothe decoding device in FIG. 162 except that, the column permutation ofthe expression (12) is not performed. Therefore, description is omitted.

As described above, since the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured withoutproviding the received data rearrangement unit 310, the scale can bereduced as compared with the decoding device in FIG. 162.

Note that, in FIGS. 159 to 163, to simplify the description, the LDPCcode has been set to the code length N of 90, the information length Kof 60, the unit size (the numbers of rows and columns of theconfiguration matrix) P of 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the paritylength M of 6. However, the code length N, the information length K, theunit size F, and the divisor q (=M/P) are not limited to theabove-described values.

In other words, in the transmission device 11 in FIG. 8, what the LDPCencoder 115 outputs is the LDPC codes with the code lengths N of 64800,16200, 69120, and the like, for example, the information length K ofN−Pq(=N−M), the unit size P of 360, and the divisor q of M/P. However,the LDPC decoder 166 in FIG. 163 can be applied to a case of performingthe LDPC decoding by performing the P check node operations and variablenode operations at the same time for such an LDPC code.

Furthermore, after the decoding of the LDPC code in the LDPC decoder166, the parity part of the decoding result is unnecessary, and in acase of outputting only the information bit of the decoding result, theLDPC decoder 166 can be configured without the decoded datarearrangement unit 311.

<Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 54>

FIG. 164 is a diagram for describing the block deinterleaving performedby the block deinterleaver 54 in FIG. 157.

In the block deinterleaving, reverse processing to the blockinterleaving by the block interleaver 25 described in FIG. 108 isperformed to return (restore) the sequence of the code bits of the LDPCcode to the original sequence.

In other words, in the block deinterleaving, for example, as in theblock interleaving, the LDPC code is written and read with respect to mcolumns, the m being equal to the bit length m of the symbol, wherebythe sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code is returned to theoriginal sequence.

Note that, in the block deinterleaving, writing of the LDPC code isperformed in the order of reading the LDPC code in the blockinterleaving. Moreover, in the block deinterleaving, reading of the LDPCcode is performed in the order of writing the LDPC code in the blockinterleaving.

In other words, in regard to part 1 of the LDPC code, part 1 of the LDPCcode in symbol units of m bits is written in the row direction from the1st row of all the m columns, as illustrated in FIG. 164. In otherwords, the code bit of the LDPC code, which is the m-bit symbol, iswritten in the row direction.

Writing of part 1 in units of m bits is sequentially performed towardlower rows of the m columns, and when writing of part 1 is completed, asillustrated in FIG. 164, reading part 1 downward from the top of thefirst column unit of the column is performed in the columns from theleft to right direction.

When reading to the rightmost column is completed, as illustrated inFIG. 164, reading returns to the leftmost column, and reading part 1downward from the top of the second column unit of the column isperformed in the columns from the left to right direction. Hereinafter,the reading part 1 of the LDPC code of one codeword is similarlyperformed.

When reading of part 1 of the LDPC code of one codeword is completed, inregard to part 2 in m-bit symbol units, the m-bit symbol units aresequentially concatenated after part 1, whereby the LDPC code in symbolunits is returned to the sequence of code bits of the LDPC code (theLDPC code before block interleaving) of the original one codeword.

<Another Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 165 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration exampleof the bit deinterleaver 165 in FIG. 156.

Note that, in the figure, parts corresponding to the case of FIG. 157are given the same reference numerals, and hereinafter the descriptionof the parts is appropriately omitted.

In other words, the bit deinterleaver 165 in FIG. 165 is configured in asimilar manner as the case in FIG. 157 except that a paritydeinterleaver 1011 is newly provided.

In FIG. 165, the bit deinterleaver 165 is configured by the blockdeinterleaver 54, the group-wise deinterleaver 55, and the paritydeinterleaver 1011 and performs bit deinterleaving of the code bit ofthe LDPC code from the demapper 164.

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs, for the LDPC codefrom demapper 164, block deinterleaving corresponding to the blockinterleaving performed by the block interleaver 25 of the transmissiondevice 11 (processing reverse to the block interleaving), in otherwords, block deinterleaving of returning the positions of the code bitspermutated by the block interleaving to the original positions, andsupplies a resulting LDPC code to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs, for the LDPC code from theblock deinterleaver 54, group-wise deinterleaving corresponding togroup-wise interleaving as rearrangement processing performed by thegroup-wise interleaver 24 of the transmission device 11.

The LDPC code obtained as a result of group-wise deinterleaving issupplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 to the paritydeinterleaver 1011.

The parity deinterleaver 1011 performs, for the bit code after thegroup-wise deinterleaving in the group-wise deinterleaver 55, paritydeinterleaving corresponding to parity interleaving performed by theparity interleaver 23 of the transmission device 11 (processing reverseto the parity interleaving), in other words, parity deinterleaving ofreturning the sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code changed by theparity interleaving to the original sequence.

The LDPC code obtained as a result of the parity deinterleaving issupplied from the parity deinterleaver 1011 to the LDPC decoder 166.

Therefore, in the bit deinterleaver 165 in FIG. 165, the LDPC code forwhich the block deinterleaving, group-wise deinterleaving, and theparity deinterleaving have been performed, in other words, the LDPC codeobtained by the LDPC coding according to the parity check matrix H, issupplied to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code from thebit deinterleaver 165 using the parity check matrix H used for the LDPCcoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmission device 11.

In other words, as the type B method, the LDPC decoder 166 performs, forthe LDPC code from the bit deinterleaver 165, the LDPC decoding usingthe parity check matrix H itself (of the type B method) used for theLDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmission device 11 orusing the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing atleast column permutation corresponding to the parity interleaving forthe parity check matrix H. Furthermore, as the type A method, the LDPCdecoder 166 performs, for the LDPC code from the bit deinterleaver 165,the LDPC decoding using the parity check matrix (FIG. 28) obtained byapplying column permutation to the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) (of thetype A method) used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 of thetransmission device 11 or using the transformed parity check matrix(FIG. 29) obtained by applying row permutation to the parity checkmatrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC coding.

Here, in FIG. 165, since the LDPC code obtained by LDPC coding accordingto the parity check matrix H is supplied from (the parity deinterleaver1011 of) the bit deinterleaver 165 to the LDPC decoder 166, in a case ofperforming LDPC decoding of the LDPC code using the parity check matrixH itself by the type B method used for the LDPC coding by the LDPCencoder 115 of the transmission de vice 11 or using the parity checkmatrix (FIG. 28) obtained by applying column permutation to the paritycheck matrix (FIG. 27) by the type A method used for the LDPC coding,the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured as a decoding device forperforming LDPC decoding by a full serial decoding method in whichoperations of messages (a check node message and a variable nodemessage) are sequentially performed one node at a time or a decodingdevice for performing LDPC decoding by a full parallel decoding methodin which operations of messages are performed simultaneously(parallelly) for all nodes, for example.

Furthermore, in the LDPC decoder 166, in a case of performing LDPCdecoding of the LDPC code using the transformed parity check matrixobtained by applying at least column permutation corresponding to theparity interleaving to the parity check matrix H by the type B methodused for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmissiondevice 11 or using the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29)obtained by applying row permutation to the parity check matrix (FIG.27) by the type A method used for the LDPC coding, the LDPC decoder 166can be configured as an architecture decoding device for simultaneouslyperforming the check node operation and the variable node operation forP nodes (or divisors of P other than 1), the architecture decodingdevice being also a decoding device (FIG. 162) including a received datarearrangement unit 310 for rearranging the code bits of the LDPC code byapplying column permutation similar to the column permutation (parityinterleaving) for obtaining the transformed parity check matrix to theLDPC code.

Note that, in FIG. 165, for convenience of description, the blockdeinterleaver 54 for performing block deinterleaving, the group-wisedeinterleaver 55 for performing group-wise deinterleaving, and theparity deinterleaver 1011 for performing parity deinterleaving areseparately configured. However, two or more of the block deinterleaver54, the group-wise deinterleaver 55, and the parity deinterleaver 1011can be integrally configured similarly to the parity interleaver 23, thegroup-wise interleaver 24, and the block interleaver 25 of thetransmission device 11.

<Example of Configuration of Reception System>

FIG. 166 is a block diagram illustrating a first configuration exampleof the reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

In FIG. 166, the reception system includes an acquisition unit 1101, atransmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and an informationsource decoding processing unit 1103.

The acquisition unit 1101 acquires a signal including the LDPC codeobtained by performing at least the LDPC coding for the LDPC target datasuch as image data and audio data of a program or the like, via atransmission path (communication path, not illustrated) such as, forexample, terrestrial digital broadcasting, satellite digitalbroadcasting, a cable television (CATV) network, the Internet, oranother network, and supplies the signal to the transmission pathdecoding processing unit 1102.

Here, in a case where the signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101is broadcasted from, for example, a broadcasting station via terrestrialwaves, satellite waves, cable television (CATV) networks, or the like,the acquisition unit 1101 is configured by a tuner, a set top box (STB),or the like. Furthermore, in a case where the signal acquired by theacquisition unit 1101 is transmitted from a web server by multicast likean internet protocol television (IPTV), for example, the acquisitionunit 1101 is configured by, for example, a network interface (I/F) suchas a network interface card (NIC).

The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 corresponds to thereception device 12. The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102applies transmission path decoding processing including at leastprocessing of correcting an error occurring in the transmission path tothe signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101 via the transmissionpath, and supplies a resulting signal to the information source decodingprocessing unit 1103.

In other words, the signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101 via thetransmission path is a signal obtained by performing at least errorcorrection coding for correcting an error occurring in the transmissionpath, and the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 appliesthe transmission path decoding processing such as the error correctionprocessing to such a signal, for example.

Here, examples of the error correction coding include LDPC coding, BCHcoding, and the like. Here, at least the LDPC coding is performed as theerror correction coding.

Furthermore, the transmission path decoding processing may includedemodulation of a modulated signal, and the like.

The information source decoding processing unit 1103 applies informationsource decoding processing including at least processing ofdecompressing compressed information into original information to thesignal to which the transmission path decoding processing has beenapplied.

In other words, compression encoding for compressing information issometimes applied to the signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101via the transmission path in order to reduce the amount of data such asimage and sound as the information. In that case, the information sourcedecoding processing unit 1103 applies the information source decodingprocessing such as processing of decompressing the compressedinformation into the original information (decompression processing) tothe signal to which the transmission path decoding processing has beenapplied.

Note that, in a case where the compression encoding has not been appliedto the signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101 via the transmissionpath, the information source decoding processing unit 1103 does notperform the processing of decompressing the compressed information intothe original information.

Here, an example of the decompression processing includes MPEG decodingand the like. Furthermore, the transmission path decoding processing mayinclude descrambling or the like in addition to the decompressionprocessing.

In the reception system configured as described above, the acquisitionunit 1101 acquires the signal via the transmission path and supplies theacquired signal to the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102,the signal being obtained by applying the compression encoding such asMPEG encoding to data such as image and sound, for example, and furtherapplying the error correction coding such as the LDPC coding to thecompressed data.

The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 applies processingsimilar to the processing performed by the reception device 12 or thelike, for example, to the signal from the acquisition unit 1101 as thetransmission path decoding processing, and supplies the resulting signalto the information source decoding processing unit 1103.

The information source decoding processing unit 1103 applies theinformation source decoding processing such as MPEG decoding to thesignal from the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, andoutputs resulting image or sound.

The reception system in FIG. 166 as described above can be applied to,for example, a television tuner for receiving television broadcasting asdigital broadcasting and the like.

Note that the acquisition unit 1101, the transmission path decodingprocessing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processingunit 1103 can be configured as independent devices (hardware (integratedcircuits (ICs) or the like) or software modules), respectively.

Furthermore, the acquisition unit 1101, the transmission path decodingprocessing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processingunit 1103 can be configured as a set of the acquisition unit 1101 andthe transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, a set of thetransmission path decoding processing unit 1102 and the informationsource decoding processing unit 1103, or a set of the acquisition unit1101, the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and theinformation source decoding processing unit 1103, as an independentdevice.

FIG. 167 is a block diagram illustrating a second configuration exampleof the reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

Note that, in the figure, parts corresponding to the case of FIG. 166are given the same reference numerals, and hereinafter the descriptionof the parts is appropriately omitted.

The reception system in FIG. 167 is common to the case in FIG. 166 inincluding the acquisition unit 1101, the transmission path decodingprocessing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processingunit 1103 but is different from the case in FIG. 166 in newly includingan output snit 1111.

The output unit 1111 is, for example, a display device for displaying animage or a speaker for outputting a sound, and outputs an image, asound, or the like as a signal output from the information sourcedecoding processing unit 1103. In other words, the output unit 1111displays an image or outputs a sound.

The reception system in FIG. 167 as described above can be applied to,for example, a television (TV) receiver for receiving televisionbroadcasting as the digital broadcasting, a radio receiver for receivingradio broadcasting, or the like.

Note that, in a case where the compression encoding has not been appliedto the signal acquired by the acquisition unit 1101, the signal outputby the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 is supplied tothe output unit 1111.

FIG. 168 is a block diagram illustrating a third configuration exampleof the reception system to which the reception device 12 is applicable.

Note that, in the figure, parts corresponding to the case of FIG. 166are given the same reference numerals, and hereinafter the descriptionof the parts is appropriately omitted.

The reception system in FIG. 168 is common to the case in FIG. 166 inincluding the acquisition unit 1101 and the transmission path decodingprocessing unit 1102.

However, the reception system in FIG. 168 is different from the case inFIG. 166 in not including the information source decoding processingunit 1103 and newly including a recording unit 1121.

The recording unit 1121 records the signal (for example, a TS packet ofTS of MPEG) output by the transmission path decoding processing unit1102 on a recording (storage) medium such as an optical disk, hard disk(magnetic disk), or flash memory.

The reception system in FIG. 168 as described above can be applied to arecorder for recording television broadcasting or the like.

Note that, in FIG. 168, the reception system includes the informationsource decoding processing unit 1103, and the information sourcedecoding processing unit 1103 can record the signal to which theinformation source decoding processing has been applied, in other words,the image or sound obtained by decoding, in the recording unit 1121.

One Embodiment of Computer

Next, the above-described series of processing can be performed byhardware or software. In a case of executing the series of processing bysoftware, a program that configures the software is installed in ageneral-purpose computer or the like.

Therefore, FIG. 169 illustrates a configuration example of an embodimentof a computer to which a program for executing the above-describedseries of processing is installed.

The program can be recorded in advance in a hard disk 705 or a read onlymemory (ROM) 703 as a recording medium built in the computer.

Alternatively, the program can be temporarily or permanently stored(recorded) in a removable recording medium 711 such as a flexible disk,a compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), a magneto optical (MO) disk, adigital versatile disc (DVD), a magnetic disk, or a semiconductormemory. Such a removable recording medium 711 can be provided asso-called package software.

Note that the program can be wirelessly transferred from a download siteto a computer via an artificial satellite for a digital satellitebroadcasting or can be transferred by wired means to a computer via anetwork such as a local area network (LAN) or the Internet, other thanbeing installed from the removable recording medium 711 as describedabove to a computer. The computer receives the program thus transferredby a communication unit 708 and can install the program to the built-inhard disk 705.

The computer has a central processing unit (CPU) 702 built in. Aninput/output interface 710 is connected to the CPU 702 via a bus 701.When a command is input via the input/output interface 710 as the useroperates an input unit 707 configured by a keyboard, a mouse, amicrophone, or the like, for example, the CPU 702 executes the programstored in the ROM 703 according to the command Alternatively, the CPU702 loads the program into a random access memory (RAM) 704 and executesthe program, which is stored in the hard disk 705, transferred from thesatellite or the network and received by the communication unit 708 andinstalled in the hard disk 705, or read from the removable recordingmedium 711 mounted to a drive 709 and installed in the hard disk 705. Asa result, the CPU 702 performs processing according to theabove-described flowcharts or processing performed by the configurationsof the above-described block diagrams. Then, the CPU 702 causes anoutput unit 706 configured by a liquid crystal display (LCD), a speaker,or the like to output the processing result, the communication unit 708to transmit the processing result, and the hard disk 705 to record theprocessing result, via the input/output interface 710, as necessary, forexample.

Here, in the present specification, the processing steps for describingthe program for causing a computer to perform the various types ofprocessing do not necessarily have to be processed chronologically inthe order described as flowcharts, and includes processing executed inparallel or individually (for example, parallel processing or processingby an object).

Furthermore, the program may be processed by one computer or may beprocessed in a distributed manner by a plurality of computers. Moreover,the program may be transferred to a remote computer and executed.

Note that embodiments of the present technology are not limited to theabove-described embodiments, and various modifications can be madewithout departing from the gist of the present technology.

For example, (the parity check matrix initial value table of) theabove-described new LDPC code and the GW pattern can be used for asatellite channel, a ground wave, a cable (wired channel), and anothercommunication path 13 (FIG. 7). Moreover, the new LDPC code and the GWpattern can be used for data transmission other than digitalbroadcasting.

Note that the effects described in the present specification are merelyexamples and are not limited, and other effects may be exhibited.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

-   11 Transmission device-   12 Reception device-   23 Parity interleaver-   24 Group-wise interleaver-   25 Block interleaver-   54 Block deinterleaver-   55 Group-wise deinterleaver-   111 Mode adaptation/multiplexer-   112 Padder-   113 BB scrambler-   114 BCH encoder-   115 LDPC encoder-   116 Bit interleaves-   117 Mapper-   118 Time interleaver-   119 SISO/MISO encoder-   120 Frequency interleaver-   121 BCH encoder-   122 LDPC encoder-   123 Mapper-   124 Frequency interleaver-   131 Frame builder/resource allocation unit-   132 OFDM generation unit-   151 OFDM processing unit-   152 Frame management unit-   153 Frequency deinterleaver-   154 Demapper-   155 LDPC decoder-   156 BCH decoder-   161 Frequency deinterleaver-   162 SISO/MISO decodes-   163 Time deinterleaver-   164 Demapper-   165 Bit deinterleaver-   166 LDPC decoder-   167 BCH decoder-   168 BB descrambler-   169 Null deletion unit-   170 Demultiplexer-   300 Edge data storage memory-   301 Selector-   302 Check node calculation unit-   303 Cyclic shift circuit-   304 Edge data storage memory-   305 Selector-   306 Received data memory-   307 Variable node calculation unit-   308 Cyclic shift circuit-   309 Decoded word calculation unit-   310 Received data rearrangement unit-   311 Decoded data rearrangement unit-   601 Coding processing unit-   602 Storage unit.-   611 Coding rate setting unit-   612 Initial value table reading unit-   613 Parity check matrix generation unit-   614 Information bit reading unit-   615 Coded parity operation unit.-   616 Control unit-   701 Bus-   702 CPU-   703 ROM-   704 RAM-   705 Hard disk-   706 Output unit-   707 Input unit-   708 Communication unit-   709 Drive-   710 Input/output interface-   711 Removable recording medium-   1001 Reverse permutation unit-   1002 Memory-   1011 Parity deinterleaver-   1101 Acquisition unit-   1102 Transmission path decoding processing unit-   1103 Information source decoding processing unit-   1111 Output unit.-   1121 Recording unit

1. A transmission method comprising: a coding step of performing LDPCcoding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a codelength N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 3/16; a group-wiseinterleaving step of performing group-wise interleaving in which theLDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping step of mapping the LDPC code to one of 16 signal points ofuniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, in thegroup-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPCcode is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 ofthe 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups154, 106, 99, 177, 191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83,103, 169, 156, 130, 186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145,162, 127, 152, 174, 134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150,46, 153, 33, 61, 142, 102, 171, 168, 78, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128,101, 42, 2, 14, 38, 10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94, 23,34, 59, 35, 129, 12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167, 36,79, 138, 4, 95, 148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107, 137,88, 44, 116, 69, 7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24, 58, 70,11, 56, 143, 111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 52, 9, 71, 48, 26, 117, 50,149, 140, 20, 57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76, 1, 97,40, 53, 84, 166, 75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 187, 25,119, 41, 122, 16, 5, 93, 115, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179, theparity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is 126 1125 1373 4698 5254 17832 23701 3112633867 46596 46794 48392 49352 51151 52100 55162 794 1435 1552 4483 1466816919 21871 36755 42132 43323 46650 47676 50412 53484 54886 55333 6981356 1519 5555 6877 8407 8414 14248 17811 22998 28378 40695 46542 5281753284 55968 457 493 1080 2261 4637 5314 9670 11171 12679 29201 3598043792 44337 47131 49880 55301 467 721 1484 5326 8676 11727 15221 1747721390 22224 27074 28845 37670 38917 40996 43851 305 389 526 9156 1109112367 13337 14299 22072 25367 29827 30710 37688 44321 48351 54663 23 3421426 5889 7362 8213 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 52375. 2. A reception device comprising: a group-wisedeinterleaving unit configured to return the sequence of the LDPC codeafter group-wise interleaving to the original sequence, the sequencebeing obtained from data transmitted from a transmission deviceincluding a coding unit configured to perform LDPC coding on a basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 3/16, a group-wise interleaving unitconfigured to perform group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code isinterleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unitconfigured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniformconstellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein in the group-wiseinterleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is setas a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bitLDPC code interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 154, 106, 99, 177,191, 55, 189, 181, 22, 62, 80, 114, 110, 141, 83, 103, 169, 156, 130,186, 92, 45, 68, 126, 112, 185, 160, 158, 17, 145, 162, 127, 152, 174,134, 18, 157, 120, 3, 29, 13, 135, 173, 86, 73, 150, 46, 153, 33, 61,142, 102, 171, 168, 78, 77, 139, 85, 176, 163, 128, 101, 42, 2, 14, 38,10, 125, 90, 30, 63, 172, 47, 108, 89, 0, 32, 94, 23, 34, 59, 35, 129,12, 146, 8, 60, 27, 147, 180, 100, 87, 184, 167, 36, 79, 138, 4, 95,148, 72, 54, 91, 182, 28, 133, 164, 175, 123, 107, 137, 88, 44, 116, 69,7, 31, 124, 144, 105, 170, 6, 165, 15, 161, 24, 58, 70, 11, 56, 143,111, 104, 74, 67, 109, 82, 21, 52, 9, 71, 48, 26, 117, 50, 149, 140, 20,57, 136, 113, 64, 151, 190, 131, 19, 51, 96, 76, 1, 97, 40, 53, 84, 166,75, 159, 98, 81, 49, 66, 188, 118, 39, 132, 187, 25, 119, 41, 122, 16,5, 93, 115, 178, 65, 121, 37, 155, 183, 43, 179, the parity check matrixincludes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columns represented by apredetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code,the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the parity check matrix, a Bmatrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a step structure adjacent toright of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns, the Zmatrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right of the B matrix, a C matrixof N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent to below the A matrix and theB matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns, the D matrixbeing an identity matrix adjacent to right of the C matrix, thepredetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix and the C matrix arerepresented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the paritycheck matrix initial value table is a table representing positions ofelements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrix for every 360 columns,and is 126 1125 1373 4698 5254 17832 23701 31126 33867 46596 46794 4839249352 51151 52100 55162 794 1435 1552 4483 14668 16919 21871 36755 4213243323 46650 47676 50412 53484 54886 55333 698 1356 1519 5555 6877 84078414 14248 17811 22998 28378 40695 46542 52817 53284 55968 457 493 10802261 4637 5314 9670 11171 12679 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 52375. 3. A transmission method comprising: a coding step ofperforming LDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 5/16; agroup-wise interleaving step of performing group-wise interleaving inwhich the LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits;and a mapping step of mapping the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups1, 182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189,56, 67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169,49, 73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33,21, 53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83,176, 159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165,59, 25, 161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23,12, 66, 70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160,34, 101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168,10, 107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136,55, 44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103,78, 109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75,18, 96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90, theparity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columnsrepresented by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×rof the LDPC code, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the paritycheck matrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a stepstructure adjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right ofthe B matrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent tobelow the A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows andN−K−M1 columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to rightof the C matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial valuetable, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting positions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrixfor every 360 columns, and is 152 1634 7484 23081 24142 26799 3362040989 41902 44319 44378 45067 140 701 5137 7313 12672 16929 20359 2705230236 33846 36254 46973 748 769 2891 7812 9964 15629 19104 20551 2579628144 31518 34124 542 976 2279 18904 20877 24190 25903 28129 36804 4115241957 46888 173 960 2926 11682 12304 13284 18037 22702 30255 33718 3407337152 78 1487 4898 7472 8033 10631 11732 19334 24577 34586 38651 43639594 1095 1857 2368 8909 17295 17546 21865 23257 31273 37013 41454 72 4191596 7849 16093 23167 26923 31883 36092 40348 44500 866 1120 1568 19863532 20094 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 45593. 4. Areception device comprising: a group-wise deinterleaving unit configuredto return the sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving tothe original sequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmittedfrom a transmission device including a coding unit configured to performLDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having acode length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 5/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein in thegroup-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPCcode is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 ofthe 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 1,182, 125, 0, 121, 47, 63, 154, 76, 99, 82, 163, 102, 166, 28, 189, 56,67, 54, 39, 40, 185, 184, 65, 179, 4, 91, 87, 137, 170, 98, 71, 169, 49,73, 37, 11, 143, 150, 123, 93, 62, 3, 50, 26, 140, 178, 95, 183, 33, 21,53, 112, 128, 118, 120, 106, 139, 32, 130, 173, 132, 156, 119, 83, 176,159, 13, 145, 36, 30, 113, 2, 41, 147, 174, 94, 88, 92, 60, 165, 59, 25,161, 100, 85, 81, 61, 138, 48, 177, 77, 6, 22, 16, 43, 115, 23, 12, 66,70, 9, 164, 122, 58, 105, 69, 42, 38, 19, 24, 180, 175, 74, 160, 34,101, 72, 114, 142, 20, 8, 15, 190, 144, 104, 79, 172, 148, 31, 168, 10,107, 14, 35, 52, 134, 126, 167, 149, 116, 186, 17, 162, 151, 5, 136, 55,44, 110, 158, 46, 191, 29, 153, 155, 117, 188, 131, 97, 146, 103, 78,109, 129, 57, 111, 45, 68, 157, 84, 141, 89, 64, 7, 108, 152, 75, 18,96, 133, 171, 86, 181, 127, 27, 124, 187, 135, 80, 51, 90, the paritycheck matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columns representedby a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×r of the LDPCcode, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the parity checkmatrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a step structureadjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows and N−K−M1columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right of the Bmatrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent to belowthe A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to right of theC matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 1800, the A matrix and the Cmatrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, andthe parity check matrix initial value table is a table representingpositions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrix for every360 columns, and 152 1634 7484 23081 24142 26799 33620 40989 41902 4431944378 45067 140 701 5137 7313 12672 16929 20359 27052 30236 33846 3625446973 748 769 2891 7812 9964 15629 19104 20551 25796 28144 31518 34124542 976 2279 18904 20877 24190 25903 28129 36804 41152 41957 46888 173960 2926 11682 12304 13284 18037 22702 30255 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 45593. 5. A transmissionmethod comprising: a coding step of performing LDPC coding on a basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 7/16; a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups 35, 75, 166, 145, 143, 184,62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187, 144, 91, 78, 44, 39, 109,185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94, 130, 27, 171, 19, 51, 165,148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49, 120, 152, 161, 162, 147, 71,137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92, 90, 60, 99, 79, 59, 108,115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86, 117, 191, 101, 52, 15,80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73, 64, 16, 18, 146, 70,181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113, 97, 2, 6, 55, 17,65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125, 20, 106, 186, 182,188, 114, I, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22, 190, 58, 23, 155,138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118, 121, 129, 168, 13,128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76, 50, 154, 139, 66,85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122, the parity check matrixincludes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columns represented by apredetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code,the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the parity check matrix, a Bmatrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a step structure adjacent toright of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns, the Zmatrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right of the B matrix, a C matrixof N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent to below the A matrix and theB matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns, the D matrixbeing an identity matrix adjacent to right of the C matrix, thepredetermined value M1 is 4680, the A matrix and the C matrix arerepresented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the paritycheck matrix initial value table is a table representing positions ofelements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrix for every 360 columns,and is 1012 3997 5398 5796 21940 23609 25002 28007 32214 33822 381941110 4016 5752 10837 15440 15952 17802 27468 32933 33191 35420 95 19536554 11381 12839 12880 22901 26742 26910 27621 37825 1146 2232 565813131 13785 16771 17466 20561 29400 32962 36879 2023 3420 5107 1078912303 13316 14428 24912 35363 36348 38787 3283 3637 12474 14376 2045922584 23093 28876 31485 31742 34849 1807 3890 4865 7562 9091 13778 1836121934 24548 34267 38260 1613 3620 10165 11464 14071 20675 20803 2681427593 29483 36485 849 3946 8585 9208 9939 14676 14990 19276 23459 3057736838 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 29526. 6. A reception devicecomprising: a group-wise deinterleaving unit configured to return thesequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving to the originalsequence, the sequence being obtained from data transmitted from atransmission device including a coding unit configured to perform LDPCcoding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a codelength N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 7/16, a group-wiseinterleaving unit configured to perform group-wise interleaving in whichthe LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein in thegroup-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPCcode is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 ofthe 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 35,75, 166, 145, 143, 184, 62, 96, 54, 63, 157, 103, 32, 43, 126, 187, 144,91, 78, 44, 39, 109, 185, 102, 10, 68, 29, 42, 149, 83, 133, 94, 130,27, 171, 19, 51, 165, 148, 28, 36, 33, 173, 136, 87, 82, 100, 49, 120,152, 161, 162, 147, 71, 137, 57, 8, 53, 132, 151, 163, 123, 47, 92, 90,60, 99, 79, 59, 108, 115, 72, 0, 12, 140, 160, 61, 180, 74, 37, 86, 117,191, 101, 52, 15, 80, 156, 127, 81, 131, 141, 142, 31, 95, 4, 73, 64,16, 18, 146, 70, 181, 7, 89, 124, 77, 67, 116, 21, 34, 41, 105, 113, 97,2, 6, 55, 17, 65, 38, 48, 158, 159, 179, 5, 30, 183, 170, 135, 125, 20,106, 186, 182, 188, 114, 1, 14, 3, 134, 178, 189, 167, 40, 119, 22, 190,58, 23, 155, 138, 98, 84, 11, 110, 88, 46, 177, 175, 25, 150, 118, 121,129, 168, 13, 128, 104, 69, 112, 169, 9, 45, 174, 93, 26, 56, 76, 50,154, 139, 66, 85, 153, 107, 111, 172, 176, 164, 24, 122, the paritycheck matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columns representedby a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×r of the LDPCcode, the A matrix being an upper left matrix of the parity checkmatrix, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns, having a step structureadjacent to right of the A matrix, a Z matrix of M1 rows and N−K−M1columns, the Z matrix being a zero matrix adjacent to right of the Bmatrix, a C matrix of N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, adjacent to belowthe A matrix and the B matrix, and a D matrix of N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1columns, the D matrix being an identity matrix adjacent to right of theC matrix, the predetermined value M1 is 4680, the A matrix and the Cmatrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, andthe parity check matrix initial value table is a table representingpositions of elements of 1 of the A matrix and the C matrix for every360 columns, and 1012 3997 5398 5796 21940 23609 25002 28007 32214 3382238194 1110 4016 5752 10837 15440 15952 17802 27468 32933 33191 35420 951953 6554 11381 12839 12880 22901 26742 26910 27621 37825 1146 2232 565813131 13785 16771 17466 20561 29400 32962 36879 2023 3420 5107 1078912303 13316 14428 24912 35363 36348 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 29526. 7. A transmission methodcomprising: a coding step of performing LDPC coding on a basis of aparity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120 bitsand a coding rate r of 9/16; a group-wise interleaving step ofperforming group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleavedin units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping step of mapping theLDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, an(i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i,and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups 155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79,59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32, 54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34,161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178, 179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29,67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 176, 16, 71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2,177, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61, 117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162,23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159, 133, 6, 152, 103, 102, 151,143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62, 20, 83, 7, 187, 153, 64, 37,144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122, 127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189,124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77, 82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63,148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70, 182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136,169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106, 35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50,72, 85, 40, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138, 43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, I, 56,107, 92, 147, 47, 30, 73, 167, the LDPC code includes information bitsand parity bits, the parity check matrix includes an information matrixunit corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix unitcorresponding to the parity bits, the information matrix unit isrepresented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the paritycheck matrix initial value table is a table representing a position ofan element of 1 of the information matrix unit for every 360 columns,and is 110 3064 6740 7801 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 15718. 8. A reception device comprising: a group-wisedeinterleaving unit configured to return the sequence of the LDPC codeafter group-wise interleaving to the original sequence, the sequencebeing obtained from data transmitted from a transmission deviceincluding a coding unit configured to perform LDPC coding on a basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 9/16; a group-wise interleaving unitconfigured to perform group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code isinterleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unitconfigured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniformconstellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, in thegroup-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPCcode is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 ofthe 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups155, 188, 123, 132, 15, 79, 59, 119, 66, 68, 41, 175, 184, 78, 142, 32,54, 111, 139, 134, 95, 34, 161, 150, 58, 141, 74, 112, 121, 99, 178,179, 57, 90, 80, 21, 11, 29, 67, 104, 52, 87, 38, 81, 181, 160, 176, 16,71, 13, 186, 171, 9, 170, 2, 177, 0, 88, 149, 190, 69, 33, 183, 146, 61,117, 113, 6, 96, 120, 162, 23, 53, 140, 91, 128, 46, 93, 174, 126, 159,133, 8, 152, 103, 102, 151, 143, 100, 4, 180, 166, 55, 164, 18, 49, 62,20, 83, 7, 187, 153, 64, 37, 144, 185, 19, 114, 25, 116, 12, 173, 122,127, 89, 115, 75, 101, 189, 124, 157, 108, 28, 165, 163, 65, 168, 77,82, 27, 137, 86, 22, 110, 63, 148, 158, 97, 31, 105, 135, 98, 44, 70,182, 191, 17, 156, 129, 39, 136, 169, 3, 145, 154, 109, 76, 5, 10, 106,35, 94, 172, 45, 51, 60, 42, 50, 72, 85, 40, 118, 36, 14, 130, 131, 138,43, 48, 125, 84, 24, 26, I, 56, 107, 92, 147, 47, 30, 73, 167, the LDPCcode includes information bits and parity bits, the parity check matrixincludes an information matrix unit corresponding to the informationbits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the parity bits, theinformation matrix unit is represented by a parity check matrix initialvalue table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a tablerepresenting a position of an element of 1 of the information matrixunit for every 360 columns, and is 110 3064 6740 7801 10228 13445 1759917891 17979 18044 19923 21848 23262 25585 25968 30124 1578 8914 91419731 10605 11690 12824 18127 18458 24648 24950 25150 26323 26514 2738527460 3054 3640 3923 7332 10770 12215 14455 14849 15619 20870 2203326427 28067 28560 29777 29780 1348 4248 5479 8902 9101 9356 10581 1161412813 21554 22985 23701 24099 24575 24786 27370 3266 8358 16544 1668916693 16823 17565 18543 19229 21121 23799 24981 25423 28997 29808 30202320 1198 1549 5407 6080 8542 9352 12418 13391 14736 15012 18328 1939823391 28117 28793 2114 3294 3770 5225 5556 5991 7075 7889 11145 1138616561 18956 19034 23605 26085 27132 3623 4011 4225 5249 5489 5711 72409831 10458 14697 15420 16015 17782 23244 24215 24386 2624 2750 3 71 824711135 13702 19290 22209 22975 23811 23931 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 15718. 9. A transmission method comprising: a coding step ofperforming LDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 11/16;a group-wise interleaving step of performing group-wise interleaving inwhich the LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits;and a mapping step of mapping the LDPC code to one of 16 signal pointsof uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, inthe group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of theLDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 2, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70,124, 128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 83, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179,123, 183, 26, 188, 15, 163, I, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180,185, 190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176,147, 189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135,71, 181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10,49, 80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19,27, 41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84,109, 104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129,159, 55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 143, 11, 93,62, 177, 64, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54,89, 99, 120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144, theLDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the parity checkmatrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix unit is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element of 1 of theinformation matrix unit for every 360 columns, and is 983 2226 4091 54185824 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 19577. 10. A reception device comprising: a group-wisedeinterleaving unit configured to return the sequence of the LDPC codeafter group-wise interleaving to the original sequence, the sequencebeing obtained from data transmitted from a transmission deviceincluding a coding unit configured to perform LDPC coding on a basis ofa parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120bits and a coding rate r of 11/16; a group-wise interleaving unitconfigured to perform group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code isinterleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unitconfigured to map the LDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniformconstellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bit basis, wherein, in thegroup-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPCcode is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 ofthe 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups152, 87, 170, 33, 48, 95, 2, 184, 145, 51, 94, 164, 38, 90, 158, 70,124, 128, 66, 111, 79, 42, 45, 141, 83, 73, 57, 119, 20, 67, 31, 179,123, 183, 26, 188, 15, 163, 1, 133, 105, 72, 81, 153, 69, 182, 101, 180,165, 190, 77, 6, 127, 138, 75, 59, 24, 175, 30, 186, 139, 56, 100, 176,147, 189, 116, 131, 25, 5, 16, 117, 74, 50, 171, 114, 76, 44, 107, 135,71, 181, 13, 43, 122, 78, 4, 58, 35, 63, 187, 98, 37, 169, 148, 7, 10,49, 80, 161, 167, 28, 142, 46, 97, 92, 121, 112, 88, 102, 106, 173, 19,27, 41, 172, 91, 191, 34, 118, 108, 136, 166, 155, 96, 3, 165, 103, 84,109, 104, 53, 23, 0, 178, 17, 86, 9, 168, 134, 110, 18, 32, 146, 129,159, 55, 154, 126, 40, 151, 174, 60, 52, 22, 149, 156, 113, 143, 11, 93,62, 177, 64, 61, 160, 150, 65, 130, 82, 29, 115, 137, 36, 8, 157, 54,89, 99, 120, 68, 21, 140, 14, 39, 132, 125, 12, 85, 162, 47, 144, theLDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the parity checkmatrix includes an information matrix unit corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix unit corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix 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 19577. 11. A transmission method comprising: a codingstep of performing LDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of anLDPC code having a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of13/16; a group-wise interleaving step of performing group-wiseinterleaving in which the LDPC code is interleaved in units of bitgroups of 360 bits; and a mapping step of mapping the LDPC code to oneof 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a 4-bitbasis, wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence ofbit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into asequence of bit groups 140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27, 109, 121, 153, 58,181, 143, 164, 103, 115, 91, 66, 60, 189, 101, 4, 14, 102, 45, 124, 104,159, 130, 133, 135, 77, 25, 59, 180, 141, 144, 62, 114, 182, 134, 148,11, 20, 125, 83, 162, 75, 126, 67, 9, 178, 171, 152, 166, 69, 174, 15,80, 168, 131, 95, 56, 48, 63, 82, 147, 51, 108, 52, 30, 139, 22, 37,173, 112, 191, 98, 116, 149, 167, 142, 29, 154, 92, 94, 71, 117, 79,122, 129, 24, 81, 105, 97, 137, 128, 1, 113, 170, 119, 7, 158, 76, 19,183, 68, 31, 50, 118, 33, 72, 55, 65, 146, 185, 111, 145, 28, 21, 177,160, 32, 61, 70, 106, 156, 78, 132, 88, 184, 35, 5, 53, 138, 47, 100,10, 42, 36, 175, 93, 120, 190, 16, 123, 87, 54, 186, 18, 57, 84, 99, 12,163, 157, 188, 64, 38, 26, 2, 136, 40, 169, 90, 107, 46, 172, 49, 6, 39,44, 150, 85, 0, 17, 127, 155, 110, 34, 96, 74, 86, 187, 89, 151, 43,179, 161, 73, 23, the LDPC code includes information bits and paritybits, the parity check matrix includes an information matrix unitcorresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix unitcorresponding to the parity bits, the information matrix unit isrepresented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the paritycheck matrix initial value table is a table representing a position ofan element of 1 of the information matrix unit for every 360 columns,and is 1031 4123 6253 6610 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 17056151. 12. A reception device comprising: a group-wise deinterleavingunit configured to return the sequence of the LDPC code after group-wiseinterleaving to the original sequence, the sequence being obtained fromdata transmitted from a transmission device including a coding unitconfigured to perform LDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix ofan LDPC code having a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of13/16; a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform group-wiseinterleaving in which the LDPC code is interleaved in units of bitgroups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC codeto one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16 QAM on a4-bit basis, wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bitgroup from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i, and asequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code isinterleaved into a sequence of bit groups 140, 8, 176, 13, 41, 165, 27,109, 121, 153, 58, 181, 143, 164, 103, 115, 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